Seems that Intel “bullied” Microsoft into labeling some of it’s hardware chipsets as “Vista Capable”, although, they were barely able to run Vista’s most basic features. Now there’s some sort of legal dance going on, and it seems that both parties are about to get into some serious trouble over this issue.
I’m not surprised this happened, hardware vendors will try anything to get you to buy a product even if it means lying to you about the capabilities. Microsoft may seem like an innocent party, but in reality they probably agreed to marking lower-end hardware Vista Capable to get customers to purchase their bloated, hardware intensive operating system.
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