What's does "Vista certified" for LCD monitors mean?

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#1 jnhay
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What the heck does Vista certified mean?  It makes sense to call a graphics card "certified", because it's specs are capable of displaying the OS well, but what does it mean with monitors?  Is it the refresh time or something?  Anyone know?
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#2 george_hopkins
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It's just a marketing ploy. Even the oldest monitors work with vista.
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#3 haols
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It doesn't matter a single ****. The GPU must be "Vista certified" in order to use the Aero interface. But the screen doesn't matter at all.
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#4 habitat
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Another bull **** way for the company selling the monitor to make money, I could put "vista ready monitor" on any old monitor (crt included) I own and sell it for far more than its worth to anyone thats PC illetarete.