PUBLIC MARKS from ericpaul with tags multinationals & microsoft

'Vista Capable' lawsuit against Microsoft now a class action By JOSEPH TARTAKOFF AND TODD BISHOP P-I REPORTERS In a blow to Microsoft Corp., a federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit late Friday alleging that Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" even when they could only run a bare-bones version of the operating system, called "Vista Home Basic."

"If you didn't know what was really behind Microsoft's open standards and source promises, it might sound like Microsoft was making real changes. You've got to give Microsoft credit for gall. They take a crunching defeat at the hands of the European Unio

ECIS,: European Committee for Interoperable Systems. Excellent initiative! Europe will watch Microsoft like a hawk, and will see to it that the recent 'playing nice' with open source/Linux of Micro$oft will result in something substantial, till this far it does not.

Excellent! One step closer to honest competition. Will the big money, monopolism and dirty trics win (as usual)?