“Windows Vista Capable” - for lawsuit
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A federal judge has said that consumers may go ahead with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. over the way it advertised computers loaded with Windows XP as capable of running the Vista operating system.
The lawsuit said Microsoft’s labeling of some PCs as “Windows Vista Capable” was misleading because many of those computers were not powerful enough to run all of Vista’s features, including the much-touted “Aero” user interface.
Neither of the two people who filed the original lawsuit participated in a program Microsoft devised to help people who bought new computers before Vista’s launch upgrade later to the new operating system, but they argued nonetheless that people who bought “Vista Capable” computers were harmed because they could only run a basic version of Vista.
The judge said if they added a named plaintiff who did take part in Microsoft’s “Express Upgrade” program, they could pursue that claim as well.
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Posted: Sun - February 24, 2008 at 02:21 PM