Microsoft made the Vista "experience" bad on purpose to help Intel sell older chipsets
I wasn't really paying attention to the Vista Capable lawsuit as it had no effect on me, but this article popped up on the radar this morning, and there is some pretty damning email trails from MS execs, including this shocker:
we lowered the requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with the 915 graphics embedded
You can read through the whole article, but Engadget has a good summary.