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Microsoft Seems Eager to Divorce Vista

Monday, May 4, 2009

Wasting no time, Microsoft appears set to stop sales of Vista as soon as Windows 7 ships. Official support from the company would be provided through April 2012, however. This would be a change from the last OS revision, where XP was sold long after Vista’s 2006 debut. In a somewhat cryptic statement, Microsoft General Manager Richard [...]

Denial of Class Action for “Vista Capable” Suit Could Be a Bad Thing–For Microsoft

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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I’ll preface this with the fact that I am not a legal expert by any means, however at face value the denial of class action status in the ongoing lawsuit over Microsoft’s “Vista Capable” program may actually prove to be more problematic for Redmond in the long run. The gist of the suit, led by consumer [...]

Microsoft May Have Made $1.5 Billion from Vista Capable Program

Sunday, January 4, 2009

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Microsoft’s “Vista Capable” program has gotten it into a good deal of hot water, including a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of allowing the sticker to be placed on PCs that could only run the most basic version of Vista. That version came without all the bells and whistles, including the Aero UI which [...]

An Open Letter to Windows Vista

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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Dear Windows Vista, First of all, I’m sorry it took me so long to sit down and write this letter. You’ve been an unusually busy operating system lately, starting with the official (if less than utterly final) demise of your predecessor Windows XP at the end of June. Then you spent some time helping with a [...]

Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment: Fooled Ya, PC Users!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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People who don’t like Windows Vista? They’re just ignorant! That would seem to be the message of The Mojave Experiment, a new Microsoft marketing site for Windows Vista. Earlier this month, the company gave 120 users of various versions of Windows, OS X, and Linux demos of “Project Mojave,” an upcoming new version of [...]