Microsoft’s ‘Vista Capable” court appeal thrown out

There’s a low blow to Microsoft today as the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out the class action lawsuit appeal against them today.  The Class Action Lawsuit against Microsoft is now eminent.  The Plaintiff’s in the case, consumers that purchased PC’s during the 2006 holiday season, allege that Microsoft “artificially inflated” demand to increase PC sales for their Windows Vista operating system.

This is not a surprise as half of those “Vista Capable” PC’s didn’t have drivers supported for the Vista operating system.  Additionally, these PC’s mostly had between 256-512MB of system memory, far below the recommended settings for Windows Vista.  I personally would not recommend below 1GB of RAM as it’s a complete resource hog even with the most modern PC.  Some vendors, even to this day, are still having a difficult time with the Vista operating system.  For example, Sonicwall has yet to produce a fully functioning “non-beta” version of their 64 Bit Global VPN software.  Microsoft may be quick to dilute Windows Vista with a fast track release of Windows 7 but we won’t know this until the first beta versions surface to compare.