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INTERNAL EMAILS reveal that some groups inside Microsoft warned against labeling the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista with the ‘Vista' brand name, because it might fall short of "user product expectations".
Documents made public in federal court today by plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit, hoping to prove that the Home Basic version of Microsoft's operating system was more 'Vista Incapable' than "Vista Capable", were submitted to support the claim that the Vole misled consumers in the months leading up to Vista's release.
An internal Mighty-Soft e-mail from August 2005 noted "The recommendation of the Windows Product Management Group was that Home Basic should 'carry the Windows brand alone without the Vista generation name.'"
The peeved plaintiffs also claim that OEMs like Dell were none too pleased with Microsoft's decision to label the Home Basic version of the OS with the Vista tag.
The crux of the lawsuit seems to be the allegation that the Vole's Vista Capable programme hiked up prices of machines that could only run the most basic, lowest end edition of the OS. The plaintiffs also allege that Home Basic, despite what the Redmond giant says, is not the "real" Vista, largely because it does not include the Aero user interface...................................
Source: *www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/581/1050581/home-basic-shouldn-labeled-vista
Documents made public in federal court today by plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit, hoping to prove that the Home Basic version of Microsoft's operating system was more 'Vista Incapable' than "Vista Capable", were submitted to support the claim that the Vole misled consumers in the months leading up to Vista's release.
An internal Mighty-Soft e-mail from August 2005 noted "The recommendation of the Windows Product Management Group was that Home Basic should 'carry the Windows brand alone without the Vista generation name.'"
The peeved plaintiffs also claim that OEMs like Dell were none too pleased with Microsoft's decision to label the Home Basic version of the OS with the Vista tag.
The crux of the lawsuit seems to be the allegation that the Vole's Vista Capable programme hiked up prices of machines that could only run the most basic, lowest end edition of the OS. The plaintiffs also allege that Home Basic, despite what the Redmond giant says, is not the "real" Vista, largely because it does not include the Aero user interface...................................
Source: *www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/581/1050581/home-basic-shouldn-labeled-vista
