14 DAY TRIAL // Nvidia played around with Windows Vista support, and it might as well have played with fire, because it is about to get burned. Windows Vista users' frustration with Nvidia is growing having a great momentum and is centralizing via the NvidiaClassAction.info, a website built by IT consultant Dan Goldman to gather resources to fuel a class action lawsuit against the GPU vendor.
The website openly accuses Nvidia of fraud and deceptive business practices in marketing products as designed for Windows Vista, without offering drivers and support. One such example is Nvidia's new Series 8 GPU line. Nvidia had marketed the 8800 graphics card series as "Designed for Windows Vista." However, after spending $700 to $800 dollars on a video card, users went home to discover that the product was not compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system.
Softpedia initially reported about the existence of NvidiaClassAction.info at the beginning of January 2007. On the website's forum, the "thread has been started in January and until now (mid April) it has grown into a 37-page long thread (one of the longest in the nvidia forums) with almost 800 posts and about 70,000 viewings. Of course this is just one of several different driver-related threads discussing the various problems with the drivers," reads a fragment of "The Full Story" section of the site.
At this time, the initiative which has been around for over three months has not ended up in the promised class-action lawsuit against Nvidia. Still, it appears that the initiative is evolving and Nvidia could end up slapped with a fraud lawsuit by users of its products for the way it has mismanaged Windows Vista support.