Fw: "Vista Capable" Lawsuit Is Now a Class Action

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anonymous reader notes an update in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
reporting that the lawsuit against Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable"
marketing campaign has been granted class-action status. We discussed
the company's internal misgivings with this campaign a while back. The
suit alleges that "...Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting
PCs as 'Windows Vista Capable' even when they could only run a
bare-bones version of the operating system, called 'Vista Home Basic.'"
In the 2006 pre-holiday season, Microsoft had placed "Windows Vista
Capable" stickers on machines to keep the sale of Windows XP machines
going after Vista was delayed. Microsoft didn't lose out totally in the
recent ruling — the article notes that the judge "narrowed the basis on
which plaintiffs could move forward with their claims."

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