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.