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Class Action Lawsuit Against Microsoft for Windows Vista Marketing

Things continue to look worse for Microsoft's Windows Vista. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman certified a class-action lawsuit claiming that Microsoft's marketing practices during the holiday season of 2006 misled consumers and artificially increased computer prices.

The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that many found that their new computers labeled with "Windows Vista Capable" stickers could only run the stripped-down, Home Basic version of the software. Because Home Basic lacks many of the features Microsoft advertised as "Vista" --Aero, Media Center PC, and window-switching--the lawsuit argues that the computers were deceptively labeled. In response, Microsoft says that Home Basic includes all the essential features of Windows Vista.

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