What Ballmer should say in the Vista "Junk PC" suit

Vista, Shmista--give me "Linux Ready!"

Gee, these same boxes that have trouble running Vista's "Aero" don't seem to have any trouble running Compiz Fusion on GNU/Linux! :-) Yes, that includes the ones with the Intel integrated graphics. My Ubuntu Hardy box has the Intel 910GL graphics and runs Compiz Fusion just fine.

Intel should've pressured vendors to put "CompizFusion-Ready" on them. Now, that would've been honest advertising.

Forget Microsoft and its Windows crap. Go with Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" LTS. It totally rocks.

--SYG

I hope he does lie, it'll

I hope he does lie, it'll just prove that Microsoft is in the business for making profit, not operating systems. Plus, it'll just continue driving people to Linux.

Class Action For Who?

This class action suit is going to help consumers how exactly? Lawyers will make millions. What will consumers get after it is all over -- a coupon or something?

Microsoft should be spanked and any damages should go straight to HP - the only company that stepped up and had a hardware platform ready for market that would run the flabbed-out operating system.

Microsoft violated the trust of their user base and their largest PC/laptop/server manufacturer -- HP. Yes, let's not forget HP (who comes out of this smelling like a rose). HP was alone in the major PC equipment market for providing complete, realistic support for Vista with their hardware offerings.

HP got thanked for that by losing their market edge of being the only manufacturer running with adequate chipsets before Microsoft watered down the "Vista Capable" label.

When a consumer was at Best Buy and looking for a box to run Vista, they saw an HP machine for $599 and some other brand for $499, what would you expect a consumer to do? Both machines were "Vista Capable" after all. Bad Microsoft. Very, very bad.

In trying to butter up their relationship with Intel, Microsoft completely abandoned HP (who was working closely with Microsoft and trying to do the right thing from an engineering standpoint). Intel knew that consumers buying a new vista capable PC/Laptop would have to replace it much sooner (Microsoft isn't exactly cranking out a new OS every 18 months). I have to hand it to Intel for forcing early Vista adopters down a path that would ensure another hardware uplift before Microsoft makes any major OS updates.

Here's how consumers can create a true class action: let's all buy HP on AMD and run Ubuntu Linux.

Stand up and do something besides waiting by the mailbox for your class action coupon to arrive in the mail (it won't have the value of the stamp it took to mail it to you).

It's time for a new campaign: "Anything But Microsoft - Anything but Intel". Abandonment is the only class action that big companies respect. Abandon Microsoft. Abandon Intel. Power to the people (hold the coupons).

-Tech Interested