Windows Vista boast a more streamline monitor display, improved hardrive, and many myriads of new software. It also carries the lie that many computers are Vista capable, when in fact they cannot handle most of Vista's new programming, as stated below.

"The lawsuit said Microsoft's labeling of some PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" was misleading because many of those computers were not powerful enough to run all of Vista's features, including the much-touted "Aero" user interface.

U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman certified the class action suit but whittled down its scope to focus primarily on whether Microsoft's "Vista Capable" labels created artificial demand for computers during the 2006 holiday shopping season, and inflated prices for computers that couldn't be upgraded to the full-featured version of Vista, which was released at the end of January 2007."

In Microsoft's defense, neither of the two participants in the lawsuit attempted Microsoft's recommended program designed to help upgrade their computers to Vista. Although they still argued that those who used older computer models suffered from being able to use only a basic version of Vista, the judge ruled that unless a plaintiff who had used the upgrade program, yet still suffered from the same results as these two, was found, they could not continue with this course of action

The entire argue can be viewed at CNN.com here

- Brady Ayres. (Grade this post, or if it's too late, this is my first post for next week.)