Microsoft petitions to pause “Vista capable” lawsuit

If you miss the now defunct “CourtTV,” Todd Bishop is the blog for you. Bishop always has a behind the scenes look at

some Microsoft lawsuit or another. He’s been tracking the Vista capable lawsuit lately — and it is might good reading at that. Bishop posted an interesting item about the Vista-capable lawsuit — which recently brought us so many juicy behind-the-scenes e-mails. The Judge had granted the suit class action status — a common-sense move considering Microsoft’s own executives said that they were confused by what the wording “Vista capable” meant in those e-mails and had gotten burned themselves by it. So what’s next? Microsoft wants to put the whole thing on pause.

Bishop writes:

There’s a new twist in the “Windows Vista Capable” lawsuit that brought us all those behind-the-scenes e-mails last week: Microsoft has petitioned a federal appeals court in an attempt to overturn the judge’s Feb. 22 decision granting the lawsuit class-action status.

The company is also asking U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman to stop the case from proceeding while its appeal of the class certification is pending. Among other things, if that request were granted, the company wouldn’t be required to produce additional internal documents to the plaintiffs’ lawyers, until the appeal is resolved.

Given the evidence, it is hard to imagine that Microsoft will be coming out on the winning end on this one.

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