Piece o’ crap ‘Vista-Capable’ machine? Sue! Sue! Sue!
- February 25th, 2008
- 2 Comments
Misleading marketing? Microsoft? Say it ain’t so. If you’re one of the many, many agitated consumers that bought a PC with a “Windows Vista Capable” sticker on it during the 2006 holiday shopping season only to find that it was mostly incapable, you might just be able to join a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft.
The PCs in question here would have had XP preloaded with the option to upgrade to Vista, except that most of Vista’s features like Aero, Windows Media Center, and a bunch of other stuff wouldn’t run, according to Computerworld.
Even Mike Nash, a Microsoft VP, is steamed. He sent an e-mail message to fellow co-workers saying, “I PERSONALLY got burnt…Are we seeing this from a lot of customers? …I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine.” Ouch.
Bought a Vista-Capable “junk” PC? You may be in luck [Computerworld]
Chuck (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Microsoft did not sell the hardware, I thought it was up to the machine maker to certify its Vista worthiness.
Doug Aamoth (Who am I?)
9 months ago
I think it has more to do with Microsoft setting the minimum system requirements to run Vista. So a hardware manufacturer says “Yeah, our computer has that stuff” and slaps a sticker on the box only to find that Vista runs like slow-moving goo. Vista runs like goo on my six-month old souped up VAIO with 2GB of RAM and a dual-core processor, though, so I guess I should be able to sue as well.