A quick background on the Vista Capable suit against Microsoft. The suit claims that the labeling of computers as “Windows Vista Capable” misled consumers because many of the machines weren’t powerful enough to run all of Vista’s features, such as the Aero user interface. The scope of the class-action portion of the suit is if the “Vista Capable” labels artificially created demand for PCs in late 2006 during the holiday-shopping season. As more emails were unsealed this week as part of the class-action Vista Capable lawsuit against Microsoft, it was revealed the original ‘Vista Capable’ requirements as drafted in December…
November 14, 2008
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