Microsoft is being sued for all the “Vista Capable” PCs out there that don’t really run Vista, certainly not like they are supposed to.

Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine has a nice piece on this, along with a link where you can read for yourself all the lame emails between Microsoft executives.

These guys are really lame – maybe that’s why, in forums, you usually see Microsoft abbreviated not as MS, but M$ (along with Microsux, etc).

See the PC Magazine column here:

Why Did Microsoft Favor Intel Over Users?

ComputerWorld has some specifics with regards to the Microsoft executives themselves – how they were experiencing the same Vista issues we all have been. See that story here:

Microsoft execs struggled with Vista too, say internal e-mails

As I have noted previously, Vista can be pretty cool and a very stable and powerful operating system, when, and only when, everything hardware-wise is lined up. When it is, you are are good to go. Life with Vista is happy. When the OS and your hardware don’t play nice Vista is a a joke and a real time-waster.

I am running it now on a very new and pretty powerful HP laptop, one that I cleaned off and loaded from scratch (not a restore disk). When set up like that I must say it runs very well. My other experiences with it have been less than happy.

So buyer beware, and don’t expect Microsoft to be your buddy – which is pretty lame, being the cash cow these operating systems are for them.

For anyone who has ever heard “that’s not a bug, that’s a feature!” when a piece of software burps, here is what can happen with a not-well-planned upgrade. BlackBerry going dark Monday was entirely self-inflicted.

See the story here and here.

Analysts are saying this could start to have along term effect (you think?). Here and Here

I love my BlackBerry – really love it – but they need to do a bit better, obviously.

Sometimes even $44B isn’t enough…

Yahoo is rejecting Microsoft’s bid (at least for now). Yahoo also says they might be going after something else, such as AOL (who would want to buy AOL?). Anyhow, read it here.

And the pink slips follow.

The saga continues…

Lots of upgrades due for most any flavor of BlackBerry. By the look of things, us “crackberry” types will love then all.

My favorites of the upcoming upgrades: HTML emails and MS Office editing with DocumentsToGo.

PC Magazine has a breakdown of what flavor of BlackBerry gets what upgrade here

Or at least, their going to have a real go at it.

The latest in the “Microsoft Hates Google and Will Battle Them to the Death” soap opera has Microsoft buying Yahoo and merging the two companies to better battle the advertising $$ that Google hogs.

This will continue to be a developing story, and we’ll try to keep you in the loop as it moves forward.

My take: It’ll happen, and most of what we know as “Yahoo!” – Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Maps, etc – will be long gone when all is said and done. But it won’t be smooth, as it never is when the Microsofties come a’callin’.

Here are some tech site’s takes:

CNet (one of the first breaking stories)

and a CNet video story here

eWeek (they’re not so sure it makes sense for Microsoft at all)

PC Magazine (Lance Ulanoff isn’t too impressed)

PC World (general story on the merger)