@colin morris

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It may be hard to accept to the many of us who think Microsoft are abusing their position but it's a fact.

Microsoft have been typically sneaky barstewards here but I agree that they don't really have a case to answer in this case unfortunately.....

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Given that a leopard doesn't change its spots, we would agree that the basic proposition is plausible (ie. that the "Vista Capable" sticker was meant to snare people into buying the hardware, pending Vista release and that theoretically they would be able to run Vista).

However, this is all about MS avoiding the legally provable case ie. they don't want the mud to stick.

The rules for proved monopolists *are* different...