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Following a lawsuit which charges Microsoft with deceptive practices by allowing PC manufacturers to fix "Vista Capable" stickers onto PCs which lack the power to offer the consumer the ability to ...
Before the lawsuit, this is how Microsoft described the stickers: “Through the Windows Vista Capable program, Windows XP-based PCs that are powerful enough to run Windows Vista are now available ...
The court case examines whether Microsoft's Windows Vista Capable and Express Upgrade programs were deceptive.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A group of mothers at Park Vista Community High School said their parental involvement makes the team feel like a family. There were decals with dad and monograms with ...
Vista Capable logos were a modified XP logo, while Vista Ready notebooks used an actual Vista logo as a basis for the sticker.
It looks like that little lawsuit over "Vista Capable" stickers on PCs could now be about to get quite a bit bigger, as a federal judge has now bestowed class-action status on the suit, which ...
There is a key change from past Windows compatibility programs. According to this Windows 7 blog post, “To be granted the Logo, products are tested to work with all versions of Windows 7 ...
In latest court filings, e-mails detail exchanges between Intel and Microsoft--and within Redmond--about concerns over Microsoft's "Vista Capable" program.
What would you do if your "Windows Vista Capable" PC purchased just before the new OS was released could only run Vista Home Basic? If you're a Washington State consumer, you might sue the company ...
Those "Vista Capable" stickers certainly caused consumers a lot of confusion, and it looks like they even tripped up some senior Microsoft execs. According to internal MS emails introduced as ...
The office box's specs (3.0-GHz P4, 1-GB ram, X800 GTO, Vista Home Premium) are just a bit above the minimum requirements of Halo 2, so we figured we wouldn't make Tray and Play's job too easy ...