Before the lawsuit, this is how Microsoft described the stickers: “Through the Windows Vista Capable program, Windows XP-based PCs that are powerful enough to run Windows Vista are now available ...

PCs with Vista Basic installed wear "Windows Vista Basic" stickers. Requirements for "Premium Ready" PCs include: Minimum 1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor. Miniumum 1 GB of system memory.

As a result, many of the Windows XP machines that qualified for the “Vista Capable” sticker were unable to run Vista’s signature features. Instead, they got a stripped-down version of the ...

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 ...

Two Windows XP PC buyers ... to pick a system that was right for them - all some would have seen was a Vista sticker - how many customers that needed a sticker to tell them that a system could ...

The "Windows Vista Capable" sticker told consumers that "their soon-to-be-obsolete XP PCs were 'Windows Vista Capable' state-of-the-art," said the class action request. The problem, from the ...

and Microsoft introduced confusing “Vista Ready” stickers on PCs that didn’t always mean graphics drivers were ready for Aero Glass to work well. Windows Vista started to get a reputation ...

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.