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Microsoft Wins Windows XP Downgrade Lawsuit

Posted by timothy on from the that's-just-like-your-judgment-man dept.

CWmike writes "A federal judge has dismissed a year-old lawsuit against Microsoft over alleged antitrust violations for the 'downgrade' rules it set for Windows Vista and XP. The order put an end to the lawsuit filed by Emma Alvarado in February 2009. In her original complaint, she accused Microsoft of coercing computer makers into forcing consumers who wanted to run Windows XP to first buy Windows Vista, or later, Windows 7, before they were allowed to downgrade to XP. The judge rejected Alvarado's accusations, saying that the plaintiff had not proved Microsoft benefited from the downgrade practices that it created and that OEMs implemented."

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  1. The usual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bribes, stupidity or both.

  2. Stupid Lawsuit by cualexander · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So this lady was suing because of what? Being slightly inconvenienced? And Vista wasn't bad at all. Especially with a new machine that had the proper drivers. All you had to do was turn off UAC and set it to classic theme and you couldn't tell the difference between it and XP. Windows 7 rocks. This lady was just trying to make a quick buck off a frivolous lawsuit.

    1. Re:Stupid Lawsuit by h4rr4r · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      How does it rock?
      I had it on a PC that I switched to linux. The damn thing would not even play a DVD without setting the region code on the drive. Way to be in Big Medias pocket.

      Still no cron, still no real headless operation, still the same old windows crap.

  3. Oh the irony by Main+Gauche · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have a hard time wrapping idea around the concept of forcing someone [Microsoft] to sell something [XP] they don't want to sell. The idea is absurd.

    And if you RTFA, you'll note that the lawsuit was about the fact that Microsoft was coercing downstream computer sellers NOT to sell XP; in other words MS was forcing them to sell Vista with the new laptops!