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"Vista Capable" Lawsuit Is Now a Class Action

Posted by kdawson on from the go-to-the-head-of-the-class dept.

An anonymous reader notes an update in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporting that the lawsuit against Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" marketing campaign has been granted class-action status. We discussed the company's internal misgivings with this campaign a while back. The suit alleges that "...Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting PCs as 'Windows Vista Capable' even when they could only run a bare-bones version of the operating system, called 'Vista Home Basic.'" In the 2006 pre-holiday season, Microsoft had placed "Windows Vista Capable" stickers on machines to keep the sale of Windows XP machines going after Vista was delayed. Microsoft didn't lose out totally in the recent ruling — the article notes that the judge "narrowed the basis on which plaintiffs could move forward with their claims."

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  1. Depends by jd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Vista means view. Nothing in the name about running anything, stability, or whatnot. Narf.

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  2. GOOOO!!! LINUX by DeftPunk79 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have decided I won't be upgrading from XP to VISTA. When my XP usefullness starts to decline I am moving to Linux. I just hope WINE gets updated faster than it does now.

    1. Re:GOOOO!!! LINUX by Stormwatch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      almost every time I try to run a program with WINE, I get surprised at how well it actually works.
      I suppose you don't play many recent games.
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