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Expert: Microsoft made $1.5B on 'Vista Capable' campaign
Published 1/4/2009 at Latest from Computerworld
Microsoft earned more than $1.5 billion from the sale of PCs marked as Vista Capable in the months before the 2007 debut of Windows Vista, according to an expert's estimate.
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