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Vista Branding Confusing Even To Microsoft
Trotti Laganna writes "Lawyers are now arguing a case brought against Microsoft over Vista's marketing. The software giant is being dinged for allegedly not telling the truth when it put the 'Vista capable' logo on PCs that would only be capable of running Vista Home Basic. Case in point - even the software giant's marketing director Mark Croft was confused by the pre-launch campaign in the United States. Croft's explanation was that "'capable'...has an interpretation for many that, in the context of this program, a PC would be able to run any version of the Windows operating system". After a 10-minute break to talk to Microsoft's lawyers, Croft admitted he had made 'an error', and retracted his previous statement, saying that, by 'capable', Microsoft meant 'able to run a version of Vista'."
I'm running a Compaq NX9420 which has/had a sticker on it saying Designed for Microsoft Windows XP.
Yet when I try to install windows XP on my pc it fails to see my hard drive. Who'd a thought that a SATA hard drive is incompatible with an out of the box XP installation disk?
Even though my laptop is designed for XP doesn't mean it will work. After purchasing a USB floppy disk drive it's up and running.
Strangely it runs Vista with no problems at all. (from a fresh install as well)
When I said my laptop has/had a sticker on it, it's now sitting proudly on my nortel norstar phone as that is probably just as capable as my laptop, of running XP from an installation disk.