it would be interesting if the plaintiffs won the case. That would mean 'unlmited internet' providers with caps could probably be successfully sued too...

I find it funny that you can sit there and defend them for this. The "Vista Capable ready" and "Vista premium ready" were NEVER mentioned early on. All of the information pertaining to it was modified to how it reads now; not then.

Get a clue and get your facts straight.

I find this funny as i know microsoft had 2 verison of this "vista capable". they were called "vista Capable ready" and "vista premium ready" as you can see capable means basic will work and premium means it can run premium. if they got their hopes up thinking it could run Aero i am pretty sure that was the salemans not microsoft.

PC's what about things like $600+ video cards. My top of the line video card for the time will only run the basic aswell and it is worth more then some PC's. It came with a nice big " Built for Microsoft* Windows Vista" sticker on the box. I can only guess Nvidia was either lied to or is in on the scam aswell.

So MS defense is "If you make the suit "class action" we will have to slow down on making cool stuff for you."

Sorry MS, I like you guys but thats stupid. My answer is, you should have thought of that before helping Intel with their bottom line.

They use to whip the sinful...

While lower quality machines may have sold for Premium, its' OEM that made that decision.In Fact there were NO Ultimate Ready Machines for Retail for near year from retail Ultimate release.
Anyone who reads theinquirer.org knew this, so it seems BIG Subject, yet its' Hardware issue. Certainly cost of XP disc is NO more than Vista disc in manufacturering & code is good in both. THERE IS NO REASON MICROSOFT WOULD DECIEVE PUBLIC INTO BUYING WRONG COMPUTER.
thomas drashek

"and that the class action search could damage Microsoft's reputation with its customers unfairly"
What reputation?? They're having a laugh surely.

Continued proceedings here would cost Microsoft a substantial sum of money for discovery and divert key personnel from full-time tasks...

Like, who cares what it costs Microsoft, they have more money than God, problem is, it's all in U.S. dollars, which aren't worth much these days.... :(

As far as diverting key personnel from full-time tasks, maybe that would be in Microsoft's favor, it would keep those "key" people from coming up with crap like MeII. I say, the more you can keep Microsofties distracted, the better for the universe in general!

More misleading by microsoft naughty naughty.

i hope they give them a good spanking for this one since they have done nothing about the defunct o/s itself know as Fista (so named as once you use it you find it feels like you have been fisted in the arse for the past week and dont feel like sitting anymore).

All this Ready and Capable shinanigans is a load of tosh because they essentialy mean the same thing in computing terms.

So in effect, they are asking for it to be dismissed because it will inconvience them if we see what they've been doing, it could cost them money, and it might find out they were wrong. Yeah, um... those are all good points, and we don't care. If MS screwed us over, they can't appeal the suit based on they don't want us to find out.