Microsoft tries to stop more ‘Vista-capable’ e-mails from going public

by Mary Jo Foley March 9th, 2008

Microsoft is trying to put the kibosh on more of its internal (and embarassing) e-mail messages around its Vista marketing plans going public. As Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop blogged on March 7, Microsoft is appealing the decision to turn the “Vista-capable” lawsuit lodged last year into a full-blown class-action case. (The original suit, filed in March 2007, claimed Microsoft “engaged in bait and switch — assuring consumers they were purchasing ‘Vista Capable’ machines when, in fact, they could obtain only a stripped-down operating system lacking the functionality and features that Microsoft advertised as ‘Vista.’”)
As Bishop explains, Microsoft also is trying to halt the release of additional internal documents to the plaintiffs’ lawyers until Microsoft’s appeal is resolved. Microsoft is citing the time — and money — required to produce internal e-mails pertaining to the case as the reasons it is seeking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the publication of more Vista-marketing-related mail.

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