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PC Labels Mislead Buyers On Vista Upgrades Capability
Friday, November 10th, 2006
To all the stickers that encrust the average PC - the ones advertising their processors, graphics 
cards and potential to inflict repetitive-stress injury - you can add one more. It’s a version of the familiar Windows XP logo that proclaims the computer "Vista Capable."
This emblem is supposed to answer what should be Topic A for most computer shoppers: Now that Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system is less than three months from arriving in stores, can a new XP machine make the move to Vista when it arrives?
That word "Capable" promises a straightforward, reassuring answer of "yes." But in practice, it can mean anything from "absolutely" to "maybe" to "not really."
Even as Microsoft is revving up its Vista marketing campaign (it just announced a set of discounted upgrade offers for buyers of new PCs), customers can only guess which computers will give them the advertised Vista experience. Connecticut News from The Hartford Courant ::: State, National, & World News On courant.com
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