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."

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[Quaoar]

I know that OS X 10.4 runs like complete ass with 512mb of RAM and a couple applications open (and don't pretend it doesn't!). I just think this will force computer manufacturers to slap more ram in the cheapo models. 1 gig isn't terribly expensive at all anymore. And by the time Vista is FINALLY released, it will be even cheaper... :)

Mandatory...

[nomego]

Get Ready.. for huge licensing costs! Get Ready.. for 10 new bugs per feature! Don't get ready.. get Linux.

Re:Bah!

[binarybum]

the space is required for the predicted patch volume required for MediaPlayer 11 through 17, oh, and for all the kick-ass animated skins that will surely be packaged in these media players by default, oh, and the skins will load into memory on startup for faster skin-swapping capability, oh, and some of the HD space is needed for the hi-res texture maps for the 3D clippy that will be included in office Vista edition.

sweet!

Re:Bah!

[Hadlock]

Printer drivers, etc add 4GB to an OSX installation, I would assume Vista requires double that for an updated set of drivers for an even larger variety of perhirials & junk. Plus various fonts in various languages. Plus windows bloat.

Re:The Bullshit is all Yours, Rebel AC

[dedazo]

Oh, look. It's twitter.

I'm not sure why anyone would listen to someone with a troll name like "RzUpAnmsCwrds"

Maybe for the same reason someone would "listen" to someone with a name like "twitter"? What the hell does that have to do with anything?

Don't confuse nvidia and ati work with M$'s crappy GUI and don't tell me they worked well until very recently

I don't know what the hell "crappy GUI" means, but it has worked well so far. Are you implying that it does not? Why, because it doesn't have "20 virtual screens"? That's ridiculous.

Microsoft is pretending this is something new and that they are responsible

I don't know what the hell you're talking about, nVidia and ATI and S3 and Diamond and SBi and anyone else that built or builds video cards have been happily doing so for 16 years. What exactly is Microsoft "pretending"? They provide the platform and others write the software for it.

And it called their crappy file finder.

This paragraph makes no sense whatsoever. Even if it's "crappy" it did exist years before KDE in any case, and the version of KDE I'm running (from Kubuntu) sure as hell doesn't show that particular behavior. And what if it doesn't? I don't care. No one cares. This is a strawman at best.

has only cared about NetBIOS.

There you go with your bullshit FUD again. Explorer does not support SFTP, but Microsoft moved to TCP/IP years ago. They support NetBIOS because they have to, but it's no longer even a default. What the hell?

Do you realize how pathetic that is?

What is pathetic are your bullshit claims of running Linux on discarded toasters and office suites using 20K of disk space. What is the point you are trying to make? Who the hell cares if Office 2034 takes up 3TB of space? If you need it, you'll have the disk space, or not. And in any case, Office 2003 installs into less than 500MB if you trim down what you don't need. Office 12 is not going to be any worse. What's it to you? By your own words you run 5 year old PII laptops with 64MB of RAM, don't you? Is Microsoft forcing you to install Vista on that? Who the hell cares? What, did you load the latest KDE with all the eye candy right into your crappy laptop? And did it run? So if you have Vista you'll turn off the eye candy. Big deal.

You are absolutely the worst slashbot zealot I have ever seen, and I've seen plenty. The other AC put it very well: you gain nothing by spreading FUD about Microsoft. Nothing. Are you in fear that something like Vista or Office 12 will eclipse free software? Fine, then get to work. Don't compensate by posting these ridiculous rants. You should be modded down to obvlivion as the troll you are. All one has to do is look at your sad posting history. Nothing but "M$" and "Windoze" and hysterical bullshit FUD rants. Grow the hell up.