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The "Vista-Capable" Debacle Spreads To Acer
N!NJA writes in with a Register story on a lawsuit filed against Acer for selling Windows Vista on an underpowered notebook. Of course anybody can sue for anything; it will be interesting to see if this action goes forward in the courts. "With a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco, California, two residents of Fostoria, Ohio seek damages and relief from the world's third-largest computer maker after purchasing a sub-$600 Aspire notebook that included Windows Vista Premium and a gigabyte of shared system and graphics memory. In its official "recommended system requirements," Microsoft recommends that an additional 128MB is required to run the Premium incarnation of its latest desktop operating system. ... Microsoft says that the Premium, Business, and Ultimate editions of Vista will run on 512MB systems — with certain OS features disabled. In the beginning, Redmond called these 'Vista Capable' machines, and it's facing a separate lawsuit over this potentially misleading moniker."
with Vista being the worst Operational System ever
-10 Obvious Troll.
I actually like the new Explorer. And there's still Total Commander.
So, normal people need to have a simple system where they can just go, turn on their computers, do their stuff, and shut down their computer, as they do with any other electronics.
Mom knows exactly three major things about her computer: The browser's Opera, the OS is Debian, and the person to ask if something goes wrong is me. You think that's not good enough for Linux? I set it up 3 months ago, and so far she had exactly zero problems with it.
Well, one if you count that I had to show her how to change the background picture back on Day 1.