Microsoft Loses Appeal of "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit 236
bfwebster writes "Microsoft has lost its appeal to remove class-action status for the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit that has already resulted in some embarrassing internal e-mails being released publicly. As Computerworld reports, in its appeal to the US Ninth Circuit Court, Microsoft argued (among other things) that 'continuing the lawsuit might mean new disclosures of insider e-mails, which could "jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill" and "disrupt Microsoft's relationships with its business partners."' Given what's been released so far (158-page PDF), not to mention Microsoft's history of rather frank internal e-mails, that's probably putting it mildly. There could be some interesting reading ahead."
Re:How Much Really? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:"Microsoft's Goodwill" ? (Score:2, Informative)
Minimum Requirements are MINIMUM requirements (Score:4, Informative)
Re:"Microsoft's Goodwill" ? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Goodwill? (Score:3, Informative)
My brother was screwed by this.
I told him: "Don't buy a Vista machine; buy XP." "Don't buy a Vista machine; buy XP." "Don't buy a Vista machine; buy XP." Per usual he did not listen and bought Vista claiming it's the latest & greatest therefore it HAS to be good. (rolls eyes). Well it isn't good; he was just brainwashed by the commercials.
It's one of those Vista Capable machine which means it runs on only 500 megabytes and is s-l-o-w to do anything (even opening a folder takes a minute). It actually runs slower than the 5-year-old PC in the basement, but then that PC has XP so of course it's better.
Microsoft should be sued. They shouldn't claim a 500 meg machine can run Vista when the software is running slower than an old 80s PC.
Re:How Much Really? (Score:3, Informative)
I could have this wrong. (Have just checked the article: "The year-old case alleges that many of the PCs labeled with a "Vista Capable" sticker in the months before Vista was released were able to run only Home Basic, a version the plaintiffs say lacked some of the most heavily promoted elements of the new operating system.") So it's not that no version of Vista will run, its the customers were lead by MS marketing to expect something they didn't get.
Mod both parent and grandparent up (Score:2, Informative)
Dell's take on Vista performance (Score:3, Informative)