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  'Vista Capable' class-action gets go ahead

By Natalie Weinstein 
<mailto:news-sg at cnet.com&Subject=Feedback%20on%20%27%27Vista%20Capable%27%20class-action%20gets%20go%20ahead%27>, 
CNET News.com
Monday, February 25, 2008 09:17 AM

*A U.S. District judge in Seattle has ruled that consumers can move 
ahead with a class-action suit against Microsoft over how it advertised 
computers with Windows XP as capable of running Vista, according to an 
article by the Associated Press 
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkdX4ffV78bYEne8xAGStIOss6rwD8UVQCH80>*. 


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 AP said.

The federal judge certified the suit late Friday but narrowed its scope 
to whether the "Vista Capable" labels artificially created demand for 
PCs in late 2006 during the holiday-shopping season. Vista, which had 
faced several delays, was released in early 2007.

According to a related article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/352442_vista23.html>, many of 
the computers touted as Vista Capable could run only the stripped-down 
"Home Basic" version of Vista.

Microsoft said it was reviewing the decision.

/This article was first published as a blog on CNET News.com./


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