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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.

    2. Re:Stupid Lawsuit by Slashbotter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      7 is still just the same vista shit rebranded, its barely any improvement at all, same shit. Why the fuck should people be forced to pay for crap just because Microscum-tards spent a few years building absolute fucking junk, infact I swear they probably spent more time twiddling their thumbs, and product/feature lab testing using noobtards, because I've seen third party addons made by one person and offered for free completely fucking piss all over MS designed shit!...and they hired complete fucking morons to designed its GUI/UX...I mean its FailAero GPU crap, the entire vista OS is a inconsistent pile of fucking shit, and every windows app is faster and more responsive on XP. So XPsp3/64 is still many times better than Win7, sure it doesn't have Dx11 but who gives a crap, you seen any half assed console ports worth fucking playing with DX11.. NO! ... XP pisses all over 7 in so many ways... so I ask again why should consumers be forced to PAY and FUND a fucking monopoly by paying full price for new shit, when an OS 8+years old still does a fucking better job!?!?! The judge here was a fucking retard!, much like the 10000's of retards who bought vis7a or had that junk bundled with pc hardware, and who will inevitably be forced to buy/upgrade to the next version through devious software development lock-ins! fucking idiots, you get what you pay for, and soon you'll be getting screwed because of it. The good thing is more are starting to see how Microscum does business, and uses patent hoarding to prevent anyone else from fucking them over! Linux is the Next step, it just needs more to start jumping ship on it and supporting its progress and development. ------------------- Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, 2007: "Protection for software patents and other intellectual property is essential to maintaining the incentives that encourage and underwrite technological breakthroughs. In every industry, patents provide the legal foundation for innovation. The ensuing legal disputes may be messy, but protection is no less necessary, even so." Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO, 1991: "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose." ------------------ Microsoft you are going down! Best of all, your own shit developments and dumbifications are helping :)

  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!

  4. Just upgrade already.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It annoys me that people don't upgrade. Windows XP is the next IE6, but for OSes. Move on, and upgrade or try something else. People flame the crap out of Vista, but when I ask them to site a specific problem...they can't. It is is snowballed, populous hate with very little justification.