A lawsuit filed against Microsoft claiming that they misled consumers into buying “Windows Vista Capable” computers only to find that the PC’s were unable to run some of the biggest features of Vista such as Aero Glass and Windows Media Center (among others) has been given class-action status by a federal judge.
As you may recall, the release of Vista was delayed causing it to miss the holiday 2006 buying season. Microsoft came up with the idea of labeling computers with sticker shown in this post, indicating that they were designed for Windows XP but were Vista capable and consumers buying these machines would be able to get a free or low-cost upgrade to Vista once it shipped.
Consumers weren’t told, however, that these Vista capable PC’s were only able to run the most basic form of Vista, Vista Home Basic, which includes few of the features Microsoft touts in their multi-million dollars advertising campaign for the new operating system.
Mike Nash, now corporate vice president for Windows product management at Microsoft, wrote in an email “I PERSONALLY got burnt…Are we seeing this from a lot of customers?…I have a $2,100 e-mail machine.”
[Via CrunchGear]
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