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Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements
Digital Inspiration writes "CNet reports that Microsoft has kicked off a 'Get Ready' campaign aimed at helping customers prepare for Windows Vista. The site also includes an Upgrade Advisor tool to help people determine just how Vista-ready an existing PC is." From the article: "The marketing programs and upgrade tool are designed to ease some of the uncertainty around Vista well ahead of the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons, the two biggest PC selling times of the year. Vista had long been expected to arrive by the 2006 holidays, but Microsoft said in March that it would not arrive on store shelves until January."
I think I'm gonna take a pass on this one.
I thought helping people get ready for these kinds of events involved saying something along the lines of "I'm sorry" or "There's no easy way to say this ..."
...I thought 640k was good enough for anybody?
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Seriously - 1GB ram (512MB for low end installs) seems like an awful lot to me....
I heard Freecell on Vista is going to use a higher resolution set of cards, so the 1GB will come in handy.
I was hoping they'd make overclocking to 4 GHz a REQUIREMENT just to weed out the, you know, users.
because of MS plans to reward their patient Vista customers with an added software bonus...
A free copy of Duke Nukem Forever with each Vista sale. (Since they should be both released at about the same time.)
"Upgrade your CPU
800 MHz required to install Windows Vista (Your computer currently has 0.00 Hz)"
I get great performance to have such a slow clock speed.
Insert Generic Sig Here:
By the time Vista is released, 1 Gig will seem like nothing. We will have 1 gig chips implanted into our brains just so that we can remember where our flying car was parked.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
Windows XP to run, and won't install on Windows 2K systems. Hrmmmm. How helpful.
;)
Well, run on out to the store and buy XP so you can run Upgrade Advisor.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
How the heck am I supposed to upgrade from GNU/Linux to Vista??
Long ago X ran under Linux and BSD just fine on a 386 with 8MB of RAM and a Hercules graphics card. Hell, before that one could run X on a Sun 3/50 with only 4MB of RAM, though it was pretty tight. A PII with 64MB or more and a modern graphics card is serious hardware overkill.
Yeah, they didn't know how to use IF statements. Clearly they should have hired you to do it...
yeah, this is truly a first. no other operating system has minimum requirements. my toaster runs linux just fine, thank you.
Its an upgrade advisor, not a downgrade advisor.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
What happens when you're trying to toast cracked wheat bread and you get a kernel panic?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
15 GB Free HD Space! Are you kidding me. My machine at work takes up 8.6 GB! Thats OS + Apps + Data. WTF requires 15 GB! Is Microsoft including Porn to show off Aero!!
My laptop doubles as a toaster and its pretty new. I freakin' better be able to run Vista.
Hanging is too good for you. I sentence you to ten years of Windows ME support.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
You're actually suggesting that Microsoft would negotiate a deal where you had to pay for things you don't actually need or want, in order to get something you do? Whatever. I'll believe that when I see it.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
nah, only happens with sesame. i'm thinking about upgrading from dual slot to quad though.
(hic) I apologise in advance..I have a nice cab sav on the go here..I also apologise for the line length, thanks to /.'s bastard line-length filter
.exe's a bot-netting,
Seven Service Packs a-swimming,
Six Execs a-lying,
Five Unnecessary Things,
Four Calling-home Apps,
Three Zero-Day Exploits,
Two Trusted Computing Platforms
And A promise that was empty
.exe's a bot-netting,
Seven Service Packs a-swimming,
Six Execs a-lying,
Five Unnecessary Things,
Four Calling-home Apps,
Three Zero-Day Exploits,
Two Trusted Computing Platforms
And A promise that was empty
.exe's a bot-netting,
Seven Service Packs a-swimming,
Six Execs a-lying,
Five Unnecessary Things,
Four Calling-home Apps,
Three Zero-Day Exploits,
Two Trusted Computing Platforms
And A promise that was empty
.exe's a bot-netting,
Seven Service Packs a-swimming,
Six Execs a-lying,
Five Unnecessary Things,
Four Calling-home Apps,
Three Zero-Day Exploits,
Two Trusted Computing Platforms
And A promise that was empty
.exe's a bot-netting,
Seven Service Packs a-swimming,
Six Execs a-lying,
Five Unnecessary Things,
Four Calling-home Apps,
Three Zero-Day Exploits,
Two Trusted Computing Platforms
And hardware requirements too steep for me!
On the first day of beta, MS sent to me A promise that was empty
On the second day of beta, MS sent to me Two Trusted Computing Platforms And A promise that was empty
On the third day of beta, MS sent to me Three Zero-Day Exploits,
Two Trusted Computing Platforms And A promise that was empty
On the fourth day of beta, MS sent to me Four Calling-home Apps, Three Zero-Day Exploits, Two Trusted Computing Platforms And A promise that was empty
On the fifth day of beta, MS sent to me Five Unnecessary Things, Four Calling-home Apps, Three Zero-Day Exploits, Two Trusted Computing Platforms And A promise that was empty
On the sixth day of beta, MS sent to me Six Execs a-lying, Five Unnecessary Things, Four Calling-home Apps, Three Zero-Day Exploits, Two Trusted Computing Platforms And A promise that was empty
On the seventh day of beta, MS sent to me Seven Service Packs a-swimming, Six Execs a-lying, Five Unnecessary Things, Four Calling-home Apps, Three Zero-Day Exploits, Two Trusted Computing Platforms And A promise that was empty
On the eighth day of beta, MS sent to me Eight
On the ninth day of beta, MS sent to me Nine Lawyers dancing, Eight
On the tenth day of beta, MS sent to me Ten Shills a-leaping, Nine Lawyers dancing, Eight
On the eleventh day of beta, MS sent to me Eleven programmers pissed-off, Ten Shills a-leaping, Nine Lawyers dancing, Eight
On the twelfth day of beta, MS sent to me Twelve DRM devices, Eleven programmers pissed-off, Ten Shills a-leaping, Nine Lawyers dancing, Eight
I am going to burn in karma hell for that prob..
Got a Pentium 4, do ya?
Why are you acting surprised? Vista will run on much less stellar machines. These requirements are there becase:
1) Microsoft wants people to have a reason to upgrade, so that OEMs are happy, and will stick to Windows rather than start selling cheap machines with a free OS preinstalled - the single pillar that will singlehandedly ensure that Bill's Empire will not fall anytime soon.
2) To ensure that people will have acceptable performance even after they install hundreds of bloated applications, firewalls, virus scanners, adware scanners, Bonzi Buddy screensavers, free wallpaper switchers, device drivers thinking their hardware is the most important component in the system, Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans, Adware, and last but not least least, Microsoft Office.
That said, I still make some money fixing XP machines that are mainframes compared to what you were supposed to have back when Windows Xtra Profit came out, so nothing is new.
What the heck is a "beowulf cluster"?
That's a case where you really don't want to fork the kernel!
Uh oh, my 1280x1024 display (1,310,720) is too much for my 64MB graphics card! Whatever will I do?
Oh wait, the monitor has a dead pixel on it. So there are only 1,310,719.
Whew, that was a close one.
Makes sense... I heard a rumor Duke Nukem' Forever is finally debuting as the easter egg in the upcoming version of MS Excel. You'll want the graphics muscle to be able to do your spreadsheets. ;-)
On this side of the Atlantic (in the UK), an Aero is a chocolate bar. Does this mean that it is full of holes and will melt under a little heat?
"If only I could go back to 98...."
Some of us never left.