Microsoft (MSFT) Puts IDP on Hold for 2 Weeks, Consulting With Chip Players
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has postponed its Integrated Development Program for Windows 8 as, according to DigiTimes, the plan didn’t work well within the upstream supply chain.
Microsoft is consulting the five major chip players and the company's OEM vice president Steven Guggenheimer has visited executives of Acer and Asustek Computer to communicate and is set to re-release details of IDP after two weeks.
The postponement is a result of Microsoft only allowing the five chip makers which are testing the operating system to pick two of the company's downstream system partners to join. Since the chip makers -- Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM), and Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) -- are only allowed to chose two of its partners, Microsoft is nervous it will anger other partners for not being chosen.
DigiTimes comments, "The participant list of notebook vendors did not include Acer and Asustek Computer angering the Taiwan players who believe Microsoft's action is not appropriate."
The chip players said the development of ARM-based Windows 8 has many difficulties and if the company decides to have an open development program, as it has in the past, Microsoft may find it does not have enough workers to support and answer all the problems and questions chip and system players have.
Microsoft is consulting the five major chip players and the company's OEM vice president Steven Guggenheimer has visited executives of Acer and Asustek Computer to communicate and is set to re-release details of IDP after two weeks.
The postponement is a result of Microsoft only allowing the five chip makers which are testing the operating system to pick two of the company's downstream system partners to join. Since the chip makers -- Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM), and Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) -- are only allowed to chose two of its partners, Microsoft is nervous it will anger other partners for not being chosen.
DigiTimes comments, "The participant list of notebook vendors did not include Acer and Asustek Computer angering the Taiwan players who believe Microsoft's action is not appropriate."
The chip players said the development of ARM-based Windows 8 has many difficulties and if the company decides to have an open development program, as it has in the past, Microsoft may find it does not have enough workers to support and answer all the problems and questions chip and system players have.
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