Then thing is.. no one wanted vista once they saw how crap it was anyway, So in a way they were saving their own customer from a nightmare. perhaps the customers should be thanking them?

Need I say more ?

take down the incumbents. Their tax revenue only looks nice until you see businesses that would spring up in their place.

The answer is simple...what does "Vista Capable" mean? It means it can run Vista. It does not say "Reduced Vista Capable", "Low Power Vista Capable" or "Barely Vista Capable". IMHO a reasonable person will assume that that badge means it will run Vista without restriction.

Now, I do agree that "Aero" is not essential. But they bought those PCs in good faith believing they'd get Aero, and MS let them down. Badly. Whilst I don't agree with the "essential" argument, I do think MS helped to mis-sell tonnes of kit through dodgy marketing.

A better option would be to reject the MS EULA, get a refund and install Linux. Then, if Aero is so essential to them, they can Compiz/Emerald until they are blue in the face!

Move to the UK, at least we speak a similar language.!

it it utterly silly. Doesn't really matter which version you have from Basic to Ultimate, they all run exactly the same applications. The only differances is the amount of gimmicks and fluff you get with them. They all have the same security changes, they all have UAC, this lawsuit ever since they first tried it has been nothing but a joke and continues to be so.

Oh, for crap's sake. Let me get this straight-- because a group of people were sold equipment which wasn't capable of running the fancy graphics in Vista, and then had the audacity to complain, you think your entire country is a farce, and would prefer being shot, or moving to a war zone, to having to share the majority of a continent with them?

America has plenty of problems, sure, and small minded nutcases with no sense or proportion is one of them. Holy shit, you'd rather die than have to read articles like this one? Really? Just take a bath with your toaster, then, and put us all out of your misery.

And, really, I think that given the choice between living in a county that's been basically ruined by years of mismanagement, military invasion, and sectarian fighting, OR having to put up with people's dissatisfaction with their computer systems, very few people would choose Iraq. And, frankly, I think that's a bit offensive towards all the Iraqis who have died in the last six years. They didn't have a choice in the matter-- I'll bet if asked to deliver a list of things which annoyed them (from beyond the grave, etc) people freaking out about Aero wouldn't even rank in the top thousand.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if Internet Exploder can be considered a "required" component of Windows, then why not Aero?

Don't come here, we're more oppressed than you are.

MS aggressively advertised Vista as having the Aero interface. To many, this was the only significant difference between it and XP. MS' typical blurbs about faster, more secure, etc, were the same things they'd been saying for years about each successive OS and yet there hasn't been any great feeling of better security, and as we know the majority of the performance difference when buying a new PC is that it's newer hardware.

MS CHOSE to put the Vista stickers on systems. Who really believes any PC sold wasn't sold with the intention of being able to merely run some form of the most popular OS on earth? We could reasonable assume a brand new system would in some form be able to run the soon to be released monopoly OS. The sticker was then inferred to mean something more, support for the advertised feature sets, ALL of them. If it couldn't do that, the sticker shouldn't have been there.

The best outcome from a suit like this is to teach companies not to play fast and loose with their marketing. What MS ought to do now is buy a sufficient number of lowest end, DX9/128MB/PS2.0 video cards and give one to each person in the class (which ought to exist for anyone seeking to be a member). If anyone doesn't want to run Aero it can be stressed that they gain little to no advantage from the low-end video card so they might as well not bother with it.

It's sad that people have to sue, but remember that when MS started the program it was deliberately to imply a greater value from the PC while we now know there was no greater value compared to any other system without the sticker when it came to supporting Vista's features.

Adverts *did* say not all features are available on all versions, small print yes, but common sense should be applied, just because these people plead ignorance doesn't mean that their claim is valid, if you see an advert for a car for sale you should always ask "what will I get with it", alloys power steering, abs, aircon, metalic paint, leather etc. etc. etc.

The litigous nature of americans is either driven by stupidity or greed, not a sense of right and wrong, remember the woman who (successfully) sued McDonalds for making their coffee too hot (nasty burn, but who's fault was it?)

Should society stop supporting stupidity? If you buy a product without being sure it does what you want (either through knowing or asking), then tough, imagine if they won their lawsuit, had millions awarded, who would pay? the people who buy Windows 7 of course, this would never be a punishment for Microsoft, where does their money come from?

Vista is way more than Aero;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista

But you can't advertise the fact that the windows address book is based on XML as a feature, as it's a bit boring, adverts are visual and snappy, so you need to show visual and snappy, almost every car advert has cars with alloy wheels, but nobody (in their right mind) expects alloy wheels free.

Maybe in a country with an average IQ of 98 (and dropping) you need to spoon-feed people but perhaps a better solution for society as a whole is to stop them breeding.