Microsoft Wins a Major Victory in ‘Vista Capable’ Case
by Wyatt WalterThe judge for the Microsoft ‘Vista Capable’ class action lawsuit has dismissed the class action lawsuit and told the individuals in the case they can pursue the case further on their own if they so choose. The judge stated that the plaintiffs failed to “adequately shown that the Vista Capable program caused widespread, artificial inflation in PC prices”. The judge did not, however, dismiss the case completely. She simply split the case up saying that the problem wasn’t a widespread problem, but there could be just cause for each of the individuals to pursue the cases individually.
In the case, a number of consumers went after Microsoft claiming that the “Vista Capable” stickers sold on PCs just before Vista was released were misleading since the PCs weren’t actually capable of running all of the features of Vista. The PCs ran the base OS fairly sluggishly and did not run Windows’ new Aero graphics effects.
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Feb 19th, 2009
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