“A federal judge ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class-action lawsuit revolving around Microsoft’s marketing prior to the launch of its Windows Vista operating system,” Joseph Tartakoff reports for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
“Plaintiffs allege that Microsoft misled consumers by allowing PCs makers to designate PCs running Windows XP as “Vista Capable” even when they could only run a basic version of Vista,” Tartakoff reports.
“Microsoft had opposed plaintiffs’ motion asking that Ballmer testify, saying that other Microsoft executives had made the key decisions in the ‘Vista Capable’ program,” Tartakoff reports. “But in her ruling (read it here, PDF), Judge Marsha Pechman said Friday that plaintiffs had shown that Ballmer may have had unique knowledge.”
Tartakoff reports, “Ballmer must testify in the next 30 days for a maximum of three hours.”
Full article here.
And how would you like that foot done, Monsieur Ballmer?
First post… i DON’T believe it!
@ MacSmiley
Shaken, not stirred? More like fast and deep.
What a maroon.
How does a schmuck like that end up running a company in this day and age. What a joke.
Bueller?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Where the hell is everyone? I don’t normally post much but today I feel like I must pick up the slack.
@ CandTsmac we’re all out enjoying the weekend!!
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How can you be out enjoying the weekend when it’s as cold as a witch’s tit out there.
72F is cold?
Must be a west coast thing. It’s only 8:30 here, we are all still a bit hung over I guess.
Witch’s tit, good one. I saw one once when my grade 5 teacher had an untimely slip. Scared the living s#@t out of me.
Ballmer’s testimony:
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That’s why the judge set a time limit of 3 hours.
Unfortunately for my wife and I, our machines probably will NOT run Snow Leopard. We have a PowerMac G5 (64 bit, non iNtel) and the first gen MacBooks (dual core, 32 bit only). All great computers.
Disappointing for us but we know that technology marches on and the line must be drawn somewhere. Since the machines do not stop working whenever Snow Leopard is released, we’ll be good.
Peace.
I’m going to pull me up a chair and get some popcorn, because this should be entertaining.
As with Lurker_PCV, my Imac G5 won’t run Snow Leopard and at least Apple didn’t try to convince me that it would. Let’s get Ballmer’s fat butt in front of a judge and jury at some point and see if he’ll lie thru his teeth or use some fancy semantics to convince people that MS wasn’t being deceptive.
Anybody have tickets? I’m willing to pay top dollar to see the master lay the smackdown on the crybabies who whine about Vista. And that also goes for you smug MAC sissies who think you’re so superior with your cobbled together 30-year old toy operating system.
These little girls just don’t get it. The awesome thing about Vista is you have choice. You can put up to 7 flavors of the latest version of magnificent Windows on countless variations of hardware at multiple price points. You MAC lemmings have no idea. Give it to ’em Steve. Never surrender!
I’m a PC.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Where would you like the foot Mr. Ballmer? In you mouth or your butt? This moron does not know how to run a company.
Zune Tang is a mac person trying to egg us on to get the discussion flowing.
I have to remind you that you are not allowed to use the word Vista anymore. Its Windows only now
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