clipped from: venturebeat.com   
Microsoft is getting heat this week as emails surface as a result of a lawsuit over the “Vista Capable” marketing campaign of 2006. When Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system fell behind schedule, Microsoft decided to launch a campaign that said PCs on sale during the holidays were capable of running Vista.

But the lawsuit alleges that Microsoft misled consumers by allowing the Vista Capable label to be placed on machines that really shouldn’t have had it. Intel reportedly pressured Microsoft to make the lower than recommended minimum hardware requirement so that Intel wouldn’t get stuck holding the bag on its inventory of Intel chip sets with less capable graphics. Here is our own fictional account of how the conversations went behind the scenes: