One more example of Microsoft trying to pull the wool over consumer’s eyes.

Deceptive, yea that’s an understatement!

11/28/2007
Microsoft’s ‘Vista Capable’ marketing slogan deceptive, lawsuit claims
Lawyers say company misled consumers with software’s pre-release campaign

A Microsoft Corp. product manager couldn’t correctly explain the “Vista Capable” marketing slogan, according to recent filings in a lawsuit that claims the company misled consumers with a pre-release Vista campaign last year.

IT Business

25/02/08
A US judge has given the go-ahead for consumers to file a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for providing misleading information about Windows XP computers being able to run Vista.

Channel Register

03/07/08
Microsoft has petitioned a federal appeals court in an attempt to overturn the judge’s Feb. 22 decision granting the lawsuit class-action status.

Seattle PI

04/21/08
Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to reverse a lower court’s ruling in the ongoing “Vista Capable” lawsuit was denied by an appeals court on Monday. The decision means the case can resume.

It also means that new insider e-mails subpoenaed from Microsoft and nearly 30 other companies could be made public.

Computer World

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While large cheap hard disks allow you to keep your audio collection in a lossless format such as FLAC on your home network, when you are on the move you probably want to squeeze the most out of every gigabyte by using a compressed format. This article takes a look at three tools aimed at making audio conversion for portable music players a painless task.

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