Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing

daviddennis writes "According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a lawsuit alleges that Microsoft engaged in deceptive practices by letting PC makers promote hardware as 'Windows Vista Capable' even though they knew it could not run most of Vista's widely-promoted features. Microsoft responds by saying that the differences have been promoted with one of the most extensive marketing pushes in company history. 'In sum, Microsoft engaged in bait and switch -- assuring consumers they were purchasing Vista Capable machines when, in fact, they could obtain only a stripped-down operating system lacking the functionality and features that Microsoft advertised as Vista ... As a result, the suit said, people were buying machines that couldn't run the real Vista.'"

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No way

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MS gouging its customers?? Say it ain't so...

Free Software is Still not a Rip Off.

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[your 233 MHz PII has snappy performing eye candy because] it doesn't run Win32?

That's only half true - Wine or Crossover Office does Win32 just fine, but I have no need for either.

my computer's CPU sits on less than 5% use when i'm just moving windows around. Less than Windows XP. Why? Because the video card is doing the work, not my CPU.

That might be true, thanks to the hardware drivers provided by Nvidia and ATI. I've heard that many of those non free drivers have problems, but you might have one that works. Free accelerated drivers would be nice.

The difference is not enough to make me want non free software, especially when it's such a crap shot to get performance worth the investment. I can watch movies and that's good enough for me. No one ever promissed me better, and those broken promisses are what this article is all about. Free software has done what people told me it would do.