Monday, February 11th 2008
Anti-Trust Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Knowingly Deceived Vista Customers
The whole "Vista Capable" sticker scandal was a mess, pure and simple. However, new evidence has prompted a new anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. It would seem as though it's entirely plausible that Microsoft was indeed trying to pull a fast one past Vista customers. Everyone who was shopping for a PC, or used a relatively-new PC a couple months before the Vista release probably saw that it came with a "Vista Capable" sticker. The new evidence shows that Microsoft may have planted Vista Capable stickers on computers not ready to run Vista at all, be it the premium version or the normal version. Men from inside Microsoft did everything from reprimand members of marketing to scoff at retailers who sent letters of concern to Microsoft. We'll keep you posted on what exactly comes out of this lawsuit. If you bought a "Vista Capable" computer with a "Vista Capable" sticker on it, you may just qualify for a settlement if this case comes through for the prosecution.
In short, it has been a very bad week for Microsoft.
Source:
DailyTech
In short, it has been a very bad week for Microsoft.
29 Comments on Anti-Trust Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Knowingly Deceived Vista Customers
and tiys, why shouldnt they be attacked for forcing a buggy piece of poopie onto all of their consumers? its blantently obvious that m$ is only about making money.
they get what they deserve (and they dont deserve yahoo for one [seperate topic])
i hope that something bad happens to the company, heads should roll because of vista.
do u know that even after all this time that the its been out for, not one (from my experiance) online submission throught the event viewer works. it has no inplace installation capabilities, and basically sufficates a pc with its poor fatty-boomba kernel.
and shouldnt we be using linux? yeah, we should shame that even when u get cedega and wine and what not it still wont play those expensive game titles you fork out for, but for everything else, linux will get shit done :toast: