In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer
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wrote
on Tue, 20 May 2008 00:20:37 +0100
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> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> It's time to retire "ready for the desktop"
> [...]
>> Microsoft's "people-ready" paid shills come to mind (links below
>> [1,2,3]).
>
> Or "Vista Ready". Talking of which, how's that "Vista (in)capable" class
> action suit going?
>
Not as well as one might hope, but it's still going on.
A Google on "Vista Ready class action suit" coughed up
the following:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/310004_msftsued03.html
suggests Microsoft engaged in bait and switch -- which is
definitely worth suing over, if I'm not mistaken. However,
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080224-judge-greenlights-vista-capable-lawsuit-but-limits-scope.html
suggests that the scope of the suit should be limited to whether
Microsoft had (somehow) artificially inflated PC prices during
the 2006 holiday shopping season, and also limits the number of
members in the class action.
Apparently, though, the suit's already been decided (where??);
it's now in the appeals stage:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9079518
Apparently the main point of contention is that the
customer may have read more into "Vista capable" than
Microsoft intended, especially with the rumors of the new
Aero interface. In short, they got suckered. (I can't
say "we" since I've not bought a "Vista-capable" PC.)
Apparently Microsoft also has some internal issues to look
into; at least one Microsoft employee bought a $2100 machine
that didn't perform as he expected.
And of course The Inquirer has a few comments:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/25/vista-capable-class-action
among them, the notion that Microsoft might be able to
settle this by printing funny upgrade coupons.
This slide show:
http://www.crn.com/it-channel/206905984
purports to trace the debacle, by illustrating points
from exhumed Microsoft emails. Apparently some were quite
concerned at the time, but they went ahead anyway.
Wottamess.
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