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In a court filing today, plaintiffs in the "Windows Vista Capable" lawsuit formally opposed Microsoft's request for an appeals court to review the judge's decision granting the case class-action status. Here's the court filing, outlining the plaintiffs' arguments: PDF, 26 pages. Microsoft's arguments are detailed in this previous post about its appeal.

Today's filing with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals follows a related filing yesterday, in U.S. District Court in Seattle. In that filing, the plaintiffs opposed Microsoft's request to prevent the case from proceeding to trial while the company's appeal of the class-action ruling is pending.

For anyone just tuning in, the lawsuit alleges that Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" logo misled consumers because it was used in cases where the underlying hardware wasn't enough to run the operating system's signature features. Microsoft disputes that assertion, saying that it considers the lower-end Windows Vista Home Basic a bona fide edition of the operating system, even without the advanced features.

This is the same case that brought us all the internal e-mails about Microsoft executives' Windows Vista complaints and the company's behind-the-scenes dealings with Intel prior to Vista's release.