If you bought a new PC that had a “Vista Capable” sticker on it you might have discovered it was only “Vista Barely Capable”. Many low to mid-level machines simply lack the graphics power to run the Aero GUI and really only are compatible with the lowest price (and capability) version of Vista.
Now a judge is determining whether a suit brought against Microsoft for misleading consumers should become a class action. As part of the preliminary data gathering, it became obvious that even Microsoft’s own marketing people couldn’t correctly explain what “Vista Capable” meant.
I realize that Vista will eventually dominate the market once you can’t buy anything else, but has Microsoft really, really screwed this one up, or what? It’s a resource hog, it lacks compatibility and it’s slower than XP on equivalent hardware. No wonder people are sticking with XP.
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