Thread: "Vista Capable" Class-Action Law suit

I think this is America only,
but thought worth mentioning

Article (quoted below)
http://blogs.computerworld.com/heres...unk_pc_lawsuit

Form to fill out if you want to join the plaintiffs (also linked in article)
http://www.gordontilden.com/contact_lawsuit.htm

Class-action law suit filing (pdf)
http://www.gordontilden.com/Documents/microsoft_class_action/Second%20Amended%20Complaint.pdf

If you bought a Windows Vista Capable PC, and want to be involved in the class-action suit against Microsoft for misleading advertising, it's simple to do. Here are the details.

As I've written previously, a federal judge has given class-action status to a lawsuit against Microsoft for a marketing scheme in which people claim that Microsoft misled consumers into buying the Windows Vista Capable PCs, even though the PCs couldn't run the most important features of Vista. A Microsoft employee has said of the PCs, "Even a piece of junk will qualify" to be called Windows Vista Capable.

The legal firm Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell LLP filed the suit on behalf of plaintiff Dianne Kelley. Because the judge in the suit has allowed it to become a class-acton suit, the lawyers are looking for more people who bought Windows Vista Capable PCs and want to be involved in the suit.

In the words of the law firm, "the class action lawsuit alleges that Microsoft violated consumer protection and other laws by marketing PCs as 'Windows Vista Capable' (supposedly upgradable to Vista when it later launched) despite the fact that consumers could upgrade only to 'Vista Home Basic' --- a stripped-down operating system lacking the functionality and features that Microsoft advertised as 'Vista' and which has been described as "'the most pointless edition of Windows that Microsoft has ever released.'"

The suit also covers those "who purchased a "Premium Ready" PC with an "Express Upgrade" to Home Basic.

If you think you deserve to be in the suit, the law firm says, fill out this online form, or send and email to [email protected].

If you want to see a copy of the suit, get it here.