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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'."

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  1. Re:"Capable" is a good word by marcosdumay · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "A 486 with 32 megs of RAM could run Windows 95 just fine."

    Yes, and that same computer was slow as hell running a (bare) XWindow system. Every GUI for Linux was just unusable because of such slowness.

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  3. Re:"Capable" is a good word by jacquesm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    for what it's worth, I wrote my own, multi user, multi tasking unix clone somewhere in 92/93

    what were you doing ?