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Vista to XP charge leads to lawsuit

Story: Windows 7 a do or die effort for MicrosoftTotal Replies: 4
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henke54

Feb 13, 2009
7:36 PM EST
Quoting:Emma Alvarado is mad as heck and she's not going to take it anymore. Alvarado purchased a PC from Lenovo on June 20, 2008, it came with Windows Vista Business and she to pay an additional $59.25 in order to "'downgrade' her operating system to Windows XP Professional."

Most people would have just complained about it and moved on. Not Alvarado. She decided she wasn't going to take it. Through the law firm of Arias, Ozzello, & Gignac, in Santa Barbara Calif., a law firm specializing in class action and consumer rights litigation, Alvarado is suing Microsoft, both on her own behalf and for other users who have been stuck with Vista and want XP. In short, she's started a class-action suit against Microsoft.

Linux users are long familiar with variations on this theme. Desktop Linux users usually have no use for Windows, but still have to pay for it on most PCs.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/vista_to_xp_charge_leads_to_l...

GO EMMA !!! GOOOO GOOOOOO !!!!!!!
techiem2

Feb 13, 2009
7:38 PM EST 		This is especially interesting considering that I thought the Vista license allowed downgrades to XP......
jdixon

Feb 13, 2009
8:53 PM EST 		> I thought the Vista license allowed downgrades to XP......

Only Vista Ultimate and Vista Business.
techiem2

Feb 13, 2009
8:59 PM EST 		Well, the article does say her machine came with Business...
Alterax

Feb 14, 2009
6:53 PM EST 		Still, having to pay for a bloated operating system (that you didn't ask for and didn't want,) only to pay extra to have a deprecated previous version of a bloated operating system that you DO (for whatever reason) want is screwed up anyhow.

I don't think what MS is doing here is illegal per se, but it's bound to raise the ire of their customers.....

Which, of course, is fine by me.

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