What would you do if your "Windows Vista Capable" PC purchased just before the new OS was released could only run Vista Home Basic? If you're a Washington State consumer, you might sue the company.

Remember the lawsuit filed a little while ago against Microsoft because PCs with “Windows Vista Capable” stickers weren’t actually all that Vista Capable? A federal judge just granted that suit class ...

After receiving endless flak for their silly tiered Vista Compatibility scheme, Microsoft has decided to issue a single “Windows 7 Capable” sticker for hardware that works with the new OS. That means ...

Those "Vista Capable" stickers certainly caused consumers a lot of confusion, and it looks like they even tripped up some senior Microsoft execs. According to internal MS emails introduced as evidence ...

The sticker was actually created on the 23rd of February, 2007 – but on the very cusp of Ubuntu 8.04 ‘Hardy Heron’s’ release, it popped up on my radar and seemed like a very cool piece of artwork to ...

华丽而漂亮的，为什么没有生存到最后？ 编者按：从后来的很多反馈看来，Vista都是一个超前于时代的操作系统。但这个操作系统在当年却遭遇了前所未有的失利——究竟为什么Vista会失败、死亡？当时的项目团队主管之一Ben Fathi在Medium发表了文章What Really Happened ...

For example, I wandered into a local branch of office-supply giant Staples the weekend of February 3, 2007, to check out the prices on Vista upgrades and the availability of computers with Vista ...

Windows Vista is here at last. One of the largest software projects ever undertaken, Vista is indisputably a milestone—despite Microsoft's having abandoned many of its most ambitious goals for the ...

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Windows Vista’s launch in late 2006 and early 2007 was one of the toughest chapters in Microsoft’s history. There’s still a lot to learn from Vista. That thought struck me this weekend as I was ...