Microsoft Unveils 'Vista Premium' Requirements

Graeme writes "Microsoft has finished what some are calling the true minimum requirements for Windows Vista: the finalized requirements for the 'Vista Premium' certification program. The program is used to influence OEM designs, and it gives an idea of what Microsoft thinks Vista really needs to run well, and what they think is in the horizon. The Ars report hits the highlights, and there are some surprises in there, such as a delayed requirement for HDCP. Ars suspects that the slow ramp-up is due to the pact to not use the Image Constraint Token."

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4. Your wallet was empty (n/t)

[Mateo_LeFou]

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You make your bed, you sleep in it...

[Frosty Piss]

I'm pretty sure that Microsoft feels that they, as the sole OS provider for the majority of the world, are in the driver's seat when it comes to hardware specs. Without much question, they know that people will end up buying whatever hardware they are directed by Microsoft to buy, because they have little choice. Much of this fact can be laid squarely at the feet of the Linux zealots who insist that there is no need for Linux to be "consumer friendly". You make your bed, you sleep in it...

Re:You can see where they're going

[LainTouko]

My Windows partition doesn't make use of networking. It's far easier to download anything it needs when I'm in Linux than to allow it onto the internet and have to worry about what other people might try to do to it, and, being an operating system designed to serve Microsoft, and only serve me if it's convenient for them, what it might try to do itself.

Windows ME all over again

[DigiShaman]

Why do I get the feeling that Vista is nothing more than Windows Millinium Edition all over again? Sounds like a hacked up NT OS to me.

I won't be installing it. If I must play games, I'll get an game console and hook it up to a computer monitor instead.

Re:You can see where they're going

[Opportunist]

My recommendation would be to get a copy of the Linux-CD I put together. It's foolproof. Even my mom (a VERY non-technical person, if there ever was one) was able to install (!) and use it for what she wants to do, which is email and webbrowsing, as well as spreadsheet calculations and running an ancient DOS program she uses for her biz.

Now, I wouldn't trust her to achive the same with XP...