Expert: Microsoft made $1.5B on 'Vista Capable' campaign

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  2. drhowarddrfine

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    And they're being sued for their "misinformation".
     
    drhowarddrfine, Jan 5, 2009 IP
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    I didn't see the "B" and thought that Microsoft earned a dollar fifty on the 'Vista Capable' campaign.

    Which would have been more just. Vista is a freaking joke.
     
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    I don't see a problem with it, if a customer isn't smart enough to simply read on the side of the PC box what OS it comes installed with then oh well. The bitchiness and whininess of consumers these days is appalling everyone looking for that next big law suit they can jump into because of misinformation.

    I mean seriously this is almost but not quite as bad as the McDonald's Lawsuit, No Shit Sherlock the Coffee is going to be hot. Law suit IMO are out of hand. I'm not saying let the big companies get away with muder but seriously there was no misinformation or misleading here. They said "Vista Capable" Not "Vista Is Installed Dipshit!" Capable in my eyes means it can handle it. I think it was a good sales move, why not squeeze the last few bits of sales from a older product right before you release the Next Generation. It the nature of business, so this lawsuit would mean that a company wouldn't have the right to try and achieve more sales of a predated product if they release a newer version.
     
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    they shouldnt advertise them as camptiable because they can hardly run it lol [​IMG]
     
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    Are you saying HP isn't smart enough? HP was screwed by this and the President openly talks of his disgust with Microsoft. The link is in another thread on this board.
     
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    I don't see this as a Microsoft problem, rather it's an industry problem. Lots of mislabelling and massive false advertising when it comes to computers and hardware, for example if you buy a hard drive it'll say something like "350 gb" - but you're not actually getting 350gb, you're actually getting something like 290gb or at max 315gb - you lose out a lot of gb because of formatting, it uses a large volume of space to store hardware table data (which contains things like partitions, etc).

    There's so many examples of this it boggles the brain.
     
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    Nope. Microsoft caused it. I have to find that link. That's why HP is pissed and MS is getting sued (again).
     
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    Why is the vista capable campaign a problem? It says vista capable not vista installed.
     
    HydroJohn, Jan 6, 2009 IP
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    Definitely misleading...
     
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    Because it didn't say "Crippled Vista". Vista is a package of features. Saying "I run Vista" but, after the sale, saying "But you can't run Aero", is deceptive.
     
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