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.'"

Comments

Regardless of who's right or wrong.....

[8127972]

..... Microsoft employees should be on the lookout for flying chairs.

Re:Looks like a worthless suite to me

[peragrin]

without Aero what's the point of Vista?

Besides compiz/beryl and OSX can do everything aero can with a 64meg video card, half the ram(only 512), and much less processor.

Why?