This time with Steve Ballmer attempting to evade being deposed in the class action ‘Windows Vista Capable’ case. Joe Tartakoff has the details of what Steve’s lawyers are saying: Basically that he doesn’t know much.

Just blame it on Jim Alchin we say. Oh hang on, that’s what they’re doing.

The Vista Capable case is a whole bunch of people complaining that the ‘Windows Vista Capable’ stickers that got stuck on piss-poor performing PCs were misleading, and that Microsoft was aware of the fact but pushed it along anyway.

Our view on it is this: if Microsoft did knowingly promote Vista on boxes that couldn’t really handle it, then they’re fucking idiots. Why make your operating system look shit? Surely you’d want to only have it running on grunty machines that made it look slick and superfast. If they didn’t knowingly promote it then they should have at least made a point of stopping it. We think they fucked up which ever way you look at it.

UPDATE: Oh, and in terms of keeping all the plaintiffs up to date on proceedings, Microsoft plans to contact them via Windows Updates. ROLF!

Like Mary-Jo, we were interested to see that Microsoft is extending its downgrade rights to XP by another 6 months as reported by The Register.

Unlike Mary-Jo, we don’t think this is confusing at all (to Vista, XP or any other users).

Basically, Microsoft listened to its customer base and responded to feedback. There’s no reason to think this suggests Vista isn’t ready for prime time (as Mary-Jo alludes to) – rather it’s just that Vista isn’t appropriate for some customers at this point in time. Simple.