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Shagbag
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« on: April 04, 2007, 05:01:54 PM »
Link.

Looks like a vexacious claim to me.
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2007, 05:34:02 PM »
Agreed.

>>A Windows Vista Capable machine is defined by Microsoft as using "at least" an 800MHz processor, 512MbB RAM and DirectX 9 compatible graphics card.

That's an odd combination of hardware as an 800 MHz machine will have something like DX5 video hardware but none-the-less, DX9 is not a requirement and the operating system performs all of it's functions just fine without DX9 hardware.  The only difference is less eye-candy but functionally it's the same.  WinXP runs surprisingly well on a 233MHz PII with 192MB of RAM so it wouldn't surprise me if Vista does do okay on an 800MHz 512MB machine.

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>>The suit claims many of the Windows Vista Capable machines are only capable of running Home Basic editions of Windows Vista and could not run the next edition, Home Premium, which featured most of the heavily advertised features.

Ummm... it will run it... just without the eye-candy and possibly very, very slowly.
Who in their right mind thinks eye-candy is a necessity ?
This is like those clowns that constantly claim you NEED a top-of-the-line machine to run modern day video games... they know nothing.  They need to wake-up and realize that we've had virtual memory since DOSShell, predating even WIndows 3.1.

Translation:  Lawsuit is doomed.  Big waste of money & time.  Wonder what these jokers are smoke'n.
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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2007, 07:00:16 PM »
Yeah, lawsuit is frivolous from what I can see.  No one promises that you can do everything.  Should they be sued because MCE features are only useful if there is a TV tuner in the machine, and most PC's ship without one?
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2007, 04:58:20 AM »
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Yeah, lawsuit is frivolous from what I can see.  No one promises that you can do everything.  Should they be sued because MCE features are only useful if there is a TV tuner in the machine, and most PC's ship without one?

yes, microsoft owes me $300 because I bought a shitty PC without a tuner!  THE BASTARDS!  or something...
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« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2007, 11:47:15 AM »
hey!  where is that EULA?  I want to get PAID!!!
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