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Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has submitted the follow-up to Windows Vista to the committee that oversees its US antitrust compliance, to ensure the operating system is meeting the terms of the company's agreement with the government. According to last week's status report on the US antitrust case, Microsoft "recently supplied" the Technical Committee (TC) with a build of the OS, code-named Windows 7, and the TC will "conduct middleware-related tests on future builds" of the software. The move was revealed in papers filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Those on the TC so far are the only ones privy to what the follow-up to Vista will look like, and Microsoft is mum on details of the software. But recent company moves and revelations hint at what can be expected from the software, which is due for release in late 2009 or early 2010. Lets hope Microsoft learns some lessons from the "Vista Capable" dilemma!!"
didn't we just have an article nearly exactly like this a few days ago?
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
How on earth does this kind of thing not get leaked? Dozens of people with copies of the software, masive portable storage devices commonplace...
The problem with saying hardware is 'vista capable' is that its not entirely clear what they mean. I have it on good authority that a room-full of MS lawyers have come up with a new term for selling hardware that the newest version of Windows may or may not run on:
"Supports windows 7" means that if you put the software box on top of the hardware, the hardware will not physically crumble to the ground.
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Did we care then?
As usual, M$'s software lags hardware by five to seven years. Expect a continued messy transition to 64 bit computing that will favor Intel, the other monopoly laggart.
This is a lot like the transition from 95 to XP. How many times did Bill Gates declare the "death of DOS" or "16 bit computing"? The messy steps between included 98, NT, ME and W2K. It took that long to marginalize competing software vendors but the real cost should be measured in intentionally wasted hardware. Non free and free software competitors continued to produce technically superior software such as DRDOS, Lotus, Word Perfect, OS/2, BeOS and Apple, of course. The competitors all won the race to 32 bits by years but M$ used it's market position to shove them all aside. This is the lesson they thought they learned then.
Free software has handed M$ it's ass for 64 bit software and architecture independence. Almost as soon as there were 64 bit platforms GNU/Linux and BSD were running on it, Alpha, AMD, Intel, Sun and more exotic stuff. Lesser computers are also working. Thanks to the fantastic work of GNU it's just a compiler switch.
The problem for M$ is that we have all learned the same lesson and are sick of it. People are not going to just go along with things. They are not going to throw their hardware out again for another buggy version of Windows. Free software works all of it better now, so Windows 7 is just as dead in the water as Vista was. The industry is losing money, and their trust in M$ is gone.
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I didn't think anything could hold together in the pure evil emanating from Windows CDs...
Windows XP was released Q4 2001,
Windows Vista was released Q1 2007,
Windows 7 is scheduled for Q4 2009,
Windows 8 is scheduled for Q1 2011,
Windows 9 is scheduled for Q4 2011,
Windows 10 is scheduled for Q1 2012.
Windows 11 and 12 are scheduled for Q2 2012,
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You're wrong about world perfect- MS Office has always been the premiere office suite. Have you seen Office 08? I don't get why Sarah Connor was trying to destroy The Turk-- it's obvious that Skynet won't start from a chess AI, it'll start when Microsoft adds just one too many features to Office and Visual Studio, and they become self-aware. The VS2008 installer is frankly terrifying with all the features flicking by in the installer animation, some of them are so insane and impressive.
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Think about it... If Vista proves Microsoft can't control the market, and force people to buy it, problems solved!
A big part of antitrust is windows overrides default browsers and such, and forces it's own bundled applications on the user by making it difficult to discover how to make your software run well on the OS when it's not clearly documented (secret hooks only available to MS).
If windows media player is able to achieve better performance through some type of black magic that other media players don't have access to, how will this be tested on a pre-release secret platform? Same with browsers, office suites, or any other MS application.
Have these copies been distributed with the complete source code so secrets can be uncovered? Even if that was the case, who would pay for the man hours to sift through millions of lines of code? Even with a full source code audit, the released binaries could be completely different anyhow.
I think the only solution to restore fair competition is massive fines that go directly to marketing and development of competing platforms. Paying consumers who have been locked into the MS trap still leaves them trapped.
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I think that the drive for 64-bit will not come from MS or Intel, but from the memory manufacturers. When regular people start needing/wanting over 4GB of RAM, they won't have much choice but to go 64-bit.
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From the business pages of the Wall Street Journal, it appears that many countries in the EU are ditching Microsoft and going with Linux.
So one wonders if this will all become moot at some point, as the invisible hand of the marketplace chooses a wiser solution.
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Dilemma. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
VS 2008 is quite amazing. Mind you, the last one I used extensively before the upgrade was 2003. We upgraded because 2003 was dying under the weight of our huge project (it wasn't really that big, relative to some other stuff). VS 2008 ads a ton of features, while increasing the speed by about 100 times. I think they should put that team to work on Windows. Maybe they'd actually come out with a quality OS.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
So, back when Windows had lame numbered version numbers (Win95, NT 4.0) it had jazzy codenames like Chicago, Cairo and whatnot. Now, that the official releases have jazzy official names (Vista, XP, whatnot) codenames have turned into... WINDOWS 7? so what gives?
You give Bill far too much credit - he has never said anything memorable. Not one single utterance.
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It's a "dilemma" only if you look at your customers as cash cows and don't give a damn about their interests.
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It's code name is Seven of Nine. Microsoft is the Borg, and she is HOT!
The drive will only come when software is readily available that takes advantage of 64-bits. 64-bit Windows has been around for years now (2005 for XP and 2003 for Server). Software and device driver developers are the ones lagging their feet, not the OS folks. But really, for most people, what will 64-bits give you? More of your memory used up by 64-bit pointers? It's only applications which need a large address space that will hugely benefit, and so far there are few consumer apps with those requirements.
Hmmm..
1. Buy a crappy CP/M hack and sell it to a large mainframe manufacturer
2. Make deals with "compatible" makers, lock them into per-CPU contracts
3. Make new crappy operating system, hype it all to hell, and use your per-CPU contracts to make yourself a virtual monopoly
4. ???
5. Profit!
6. Get hosed by DOJ for being an abusive monopoly
7. Make a new crappy rev so buggy and huge and slow that no one wants it
8. New crappy rev flops
9. ???
10. Develop new OS rev.
11. DOJ no longer thinks you are an abusive monopoly
12. ???
13. Profit!!!
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Could they be attempting to roll the dice for luck here?
So why worry about Windows 7 now? It's years away - and it'll be essentially stillborn when it finally does arrive. By then, other better alternatives will be readily available for a far, far lower price.
I am a big, anti-MS fanboy.
I dislike/hate almost everything that they have forced me to use in my life.
However, with the changes of making IE8 much closer to standards (Won't accept this till it is out) I am in an interesting position.
If Windows 7 allows competitors the knowledge needed to integrate with the OS, and treats user programs the same as Window's supported programs (Like WMP and IE), I will renounce half the things I said about the company.
It will take a lot to make me a MS fan though.
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Free software may have had 64-bit versions - but was there any advantage over the 32 bit versions? Negligible in most cases. 32-bit software reworked to run on x64 isn't exactly cutting edge. Then once you had a x64 OS, you just ran 32-bit apps on it in compatibility mode.
No, in the real world people count on their Windows apps to run their daily business. In your dream world, who is creating the everyday business apps to compete with the Windows counterparts that run nearly every business in the US?
So that's it? All that to-do about Vista and how it's the Next Big Thing and it's slated to be replaced by "Windows 7" inside of a year and some change from now? That'll mean that Windows Vista was in production longer than it will be in service.
If they try to build Windows 7 on top of Vista the way Millennium built on Windows 98, they're doomed.
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So now the US government is reduced to doing testing and QA for Microsoft!
What exactly does this discussion have to do with the "Vista Capable" debacle?
Sure, Vista is a slow, bloated operating system that offers very few tangible improvements over its predecessor.
However, the "Vista Capable" debacle grew out of the fact that Microsoft's marketing droids decided to vastly overstate Vista's ability to run over slow hardware.
Had Microsoft been a bit more conservative with their estimates (subtly admitting that their operating system is a cow), there never would have been a legal issue. Vista on its own isn't a great product, although its faults do not constitute a breach of the law (had the product been absurdly unstable or insecure, that might have been the case, although by most accounts, Vista either holds the line or improves over XP in these regards).
TFA discusses the possible engineering & design decisions that are being put into Windows 7 as new features. Odds are that many of these features haven't even been coded. Likewise, given that the design document has *just* been finalized, I can't imagine that the marketing guys have had much (if any) time to figure out how to spin the new product.
Here's a hint: Look at the features that were dropped from Vista (some of them were actually quite innovative).
Personally, I hope that Windows 7 is a decent, solid operating system, and corrects for Vista's faults. Microsoft has had a tendency to appropriately compensate if one of their products flops. NT4 spawned into a beautiful desktop-ready os with the release of Win2k, and after destroying all evidence that Windows Me! ever existed, Microsoft launched XP, which is arguably the most successful desktop operating system to date.
Also, Apple needs a kick in the pants. They're getting complacent, and the Quality Control on the last few releases of OS X have been abysmal by their former standards.
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WTF are you talking about, your post is full of non-sequiters.
>>Expect a continued messy transition to 64 bit computing that will favor Intel, the other monopoly laggart.
Vista and XP both shipped with 64 bit versions, specifically x86-64, which was developed originally by.....drumroll.....AMD! How exactly is ignoring IA64 for x86-64 favoring Intel?
>>Some nonsense about 32 bit computing
Windows 95 was 32 bit software. Maybe you mean using a protected memory model and pre-emptive multitasking(which is an operating system concept and has nothing to do with application software). Even Mac OS 9 didn't have this, and WinNT(which predates it by several years) did!
>>Free software has handed M$ it's ass for 64 bit software and architecture independence.
Guess what! Windows runs on more than x86: IA64, DEC Alpha and x86-64 come to mind as current and past platforms.
I think your point is that people don't have an incentive to buy a new computer or upgrade their operating system. You really need new killer apps to drive an upgrade cycle; lacking that, why should people upgrade?
You lost me at Lotus being superior software.
It's a nice manifesto, but it's more about how you'd like the world to be than how it actually is or will be anytime soon.
That means the version MS is submitting is a "special" version that is nothing like what the end product will actually be. Microsoft isn't stupid enough to be honest in a situation like this.
And even if the antitrust people have enough brains to figure that out, they won't do anything about it.
This is just another measure by our corporate-run government to fool the population into believing the government is on the average person's side, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Use 'slashdot stuff' in the subject line in any email you send me if you want to get past the spam filter.
Something similar would actually have been a useful certification for furniture likely to support an X-Box.
mac os 10.5 and linux have a better 64 bit system.
Why can we have 32 bit and 64 bit in the same dvd / cd like how mac os 10.5 is and you don't have to pick 32 bit or 64 bit.
With windows you need all 64 bit drivers I can see needing it for core system stuff but do we really need to have 64 bit printer drivers?
Do we need to forced to use 64 bit joystick / other input stuff?
What about other usb stuff that does not touch the core parts of the system.
Do we really need a 64 bit IE that dose not work older plugs in's?
64 bit windows also comes with ie 32 bit
Why did you have to put the 32 bit apps in program files(x86) folder that brakes some apps?
Why did you have to brake some 32 bit plug in's why can you just be able to 64 bit apps and use 4gb or ram with out havening to mess up the 32 bit apps.
tried windows vista and they've already got win7?
With Microsoft having been chosen as the exclusive Homeland Security contractor, what is the point of this pretense over antitrust? Even before this absurd contract, it was cogently pointed out (by Ralph Nader and Jamie Love; see: http://www.linux.com/feature/23279) that the government shouldn't be putting its eggs and our tax dollars in the Microsoft basket. Now, of course, Washington is in bed with the devil. And it's pretty hard to tell the devil he's not a good lay.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/64bit.html
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apples_mac_os_x_leopard_is_64_bit_done_right_unlike_vista/
This is a lot like the transition from 95 to XP. How many times did Bill Gates declare the "death of DOS" or "16 bit computing"?
The relation between Windows 95 and friends and DOS has always been overstated; that family was decidedly 32-bit.
I see you haven't met twitter/erris before.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
There, fixed that for you.
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Vista both sold more copies and had more revenue in it's first year than OSX and all the commercial linux distros put together.
What exactly is "32 bit software reworked to run on x64"? That would imply there's some good reason to write specifically for x64.
Writing for x64 is for the most part exactly the same as for 32 bit. Hello world is exactly the same. So is 99% of software. The only time there is any difference is when there's a 64/32 bit specific optimization. Some of that can be done portably (types like int32_fast_t that indicate "This needs to be at least a 32 bit integer, but use whatever is fastest for the arch" that can be 64 bit if that's faster).
The source is the same for a 32 bit and 64 bit application, unless fixing of stupid assumptions (like sizeof(void*) == sizeof(int)) is needed.
You can optimize for x64, but most applications will never be specifically written for it. Maybe a CPU specific algorithm for something like encryption, but it's not something that requires a rewrite.
That doesn't mean there's no advantage to 64 bit apps as compared to 32 bit ones on a 64 bit OS. Compiling for 64 bit gives you advantages. There are more registers, and the compiler knows that some features are absolutely guaranteed to exist, so it can use things like SSE, when a 32 bit CPU isn't guaranteed to have them. Then of course you pay a penalty for larger pointers.
it's obvious that Skynet won't start from a chess AI, it'll start when Microsoft adds just one too many features to Office and Visual Studio, and they become self-aware.
No, no Skynet risk from Office or Visual Studio.
If they every become self-aware they will surely commit suicide.
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...and I'm sure I'm going to have half of slashdot jumping down my throat, calling me a Microsoft Sympathiser for saying this, but...
...shit like third parties having their way with Windows is probably a very big reason why Vista isn't as great as it could be. The media companies stuck their big noses in, and we got Protected Media Pathway or whatever it's called... I can't copy files around my computer without Windows having to check for copy protection or whatever it's doing, and the antitrust-friendly "Default Programs" thing has somehow managed to make it harder to set file associations than before.
The thing with Vista is; what it does well, it's really really good at. Windows Explorer finally does what I want it to do, and the audio mixing panel is a boon from the gods... it's just that all this is overshadowed by the stuff it doesn't do well, which is arguably not entirely Microsoft's fault.
I'd like to see what Vista would have been like if everybody kept their noses out of it during development.
once again, I am fearful of being called a MS Apologist, for this, but if you'll cast your mind back a few years, you'll remember how exactly the same things were being said about Windows XP and how it could barely run on 64MB of RAM and a 500MHz P3... Microsoft operating systems are a bit like a fine wine, in that they get better with age
OK, maybe not a fine wine... but you get the analogy.
If you are still caught up in this MSFT vs the rest of the world BS, you have not learned anything. When did the gov't start looking into their practices? Yesterday? I think not. By now any normal person who uses Windows should know the BS that MSFT has continuously provided in a nice and a very expensive wrapper. You have to be out of your fucking mind to believe that the latest version of the OS provided by MSFT will be bug free. The software is bloated and always late. MS Office crashes and your work goes bye-bye. How long will it take anybody with more than two brain cells to realize that if you want to work and be vendor independent, you have to look for alternative solutions.
I am not a Mac lover-boy or a die-hard Linux fan. However, both of the platforms provide enough capabilities for Office work. I have been strongly advertising, suggesting and almost enforcing document formats that are other than MSFT. There was some friction at the beginning, but now my co-workers use Open Office and submit important documents in PDF or RTF formats. Hell, even HTML works :) I have not seen a PowerPoint presentation that cannot look cool as PDF file. That is unless you're trying to show off one of those "look, I made it move" stupid tricks that only dead beat sales guys will use to wake up the public. The point is that the future is in our hands. MSFT is just a company that tries to make some money but users still have the choice. Of course, in some cases choice is more limited but I found that as long as IT departments have open minds it is quite possible to use non-MSFT products for your daily routine. The only limitation I found was the fact that we are still lacking a good calendar/organizer solution in the Open Source space. Once there is a robust alternative to Out-fucking-crashed-again-look, MSFT will receive denials for M&S renewals.
It's clear you missed out on VS 2005, even without mentioning the jump from 2003 to 2008. The rest of us are somewhat *yawn* over 2008, to be honest. Extension methods? No thanks! Anonymous types? Half-assed, too much reliance on reflection to be useful outside the immediate scope. The collections still leave a lot to be desired. But hey, we can finally hang that much-needed Reverse method off of (sealed class) string. Joy.
.NET 1.1 was everything I hated about Java, and none of what I liked. I held out in C++ quite stubbornly until .NET 2.0. Having a form of templates again (in a manner of speaking, at least) finally pulled me into C# full time. Of course, thanks to IronPython I am finding new love in Python, so C# is getting less and less attention (.NET 3.5 is also a big turn-off to me. Duck-type language features in a static language will not work.)
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All said, I am very happy to hear someone move on from 2003. I personally did not enjoy my experience with that environment.
Anyway, have fun with all the new toys.
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He wrote, rather than said, the following, but it is quite memorable.
> Windows 95 was 32 bit software.
.NET will solve this, but I still consider it a half-solution.
Windows 95 was full of ugly 16bit code and shitty hacks to keep legacy 16bit stuff barely working. Did you know that the whole kernel space was mapped into every program's address space? AFAIR at around the 3rd gigabyte. Win95 thing was just some 32bit GUI & extensions on top of the 16bit DOS thing. Ugliest piece of shit in the OS history, but hey, people didn't care, they wanted their damn old legacy programs still working and that's what Win95 gave them, along with the ugly 16bit shitty hacks.
> Vista and XP both shipped with 64 bit versions
And what use you have of 64bit system where almost all apps are still 32bit? And BTW nobody cares to make two versions (32 and 64 bit) of their exe's because Windows lacks any decent package management. Maybe
> Guess what! Windows runs on more than x86: IA64, DEC Alpha and x86-64
And also MIPS, but guess what! It treated them as if they were 32bit. There were no real 64bit capabilities until XP 64-bit edition. Go figure. BTW all archs but x86(-64)? were dropped for "marketing reasons".
A second thought... Xbox 360 runs a variant of Windows, right? Then there must be a 64bit PowerPC port also.
I am not a troll, I am not making this up, I am not making comments just to piss people off.
Last week I bought an Inspiron 1501 laptop from dell outlet. It came with Vista home Premium.
The thing was nothing but sluggish. I use vista premium on my desktop at home, it works okay because
I have a dual core with 2gb of ram and an 8600 graphics card.
On my laptop which comes with a sempron 3600 processor and a gig of ram I figured I could run WOW at low resolution 800x600,
I was averaging 17 frames per second! That is unusable.
I think that the drive for 64-bit will not come from MS or Intel, but from the memory manufacturers. When regular people start needing/wanting over 4GB of RAM, they won't have much choice but to go 64-bit. Ever heard of PAE? It was a strange idea.
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Microsoft concentrates on the features that matter for the consumer - Like when they quickly integrated USB/USB2 support into Windows. No regular computer using person gives a rat's ass how many bits does the OS or programs have... But they really like to copy their camera pictures on the computer with as less trouble as possible.
Is this the kind of machine you need to run Vista decently ?
On that kind of hardware I could install Kubuntu then Asterisk and build a PBX for an office of at least 300 agents, put a TV card in and install MythTV so I can watch shows on MY schedule, configure Samba to act as the domain controller with roaming profiles for the agent's desktop machines (if they are running Windows), serve the agent's web-based CRM with Apache/PHP/MySQL, put in a second nic and configure it as a gateway/firewall/email-virus-scanner/etc and many other services that could be needed by the company that don't come to mind because I'm at my first coffee.
And if my only job is to administer that server, I would also install my favorite games on it because most of my time will be passed playing them since it will be stable.
Avoid the MS tax, always buy I.B.M. PC's (I Built-it Myself)
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...hat the government shouldn't be putting its eggs and our tax dollars in the Microsoft basket.Don't forget their deal with the Library of Congress to put the national archives into proprietary formats.
No, no Skynet risk from Office or Visual Studio. If they every become self-aware they will surely commit suicide.
If it's anything like what some people do... maybe it will try to take as many people down as it can and then commit suicide.
You missed number 6.5 pay off politicians so the DOJ ignores you.
11. DOJ no longer thinks you are an abusive monopolyThe DOJ has done jack and shit since MS became a huge contributor to both the Democratic and Republican parties. This one should be about the EU commission, who they have not bribed yet.
Linux IS ready. What about the $200 laptop?
They didn't quit making it until Wal-Mart quit selling it.
But how many of those PCs are still running Vista? A large percantage of them are probably running Linux or XP now because you had to suffer a purchase of a new PC that was only sold with Vista.
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Actually, it's the inverse. "Supports Windows 7" means that the hardware that hosts the OS may be placed on top of the box containing the hardware that you've just purchased. Of course, there are exceptions, e.g. if you plug-in your IPOD into Windows 7, because that will violate the compatibility clause altogether.
The vast majority are still.
Actually, WordPerfect is far better than Word. You can easily publish a book written in WordPerfect; I should know because I've done it. There are easily accessible printer and page settings available in WordPerfect that allow documents to be printed in a near infinite number of ways.
If he's been educated in todays public school system, he's probably been fed all the propaganda that makes him believe what he's arguing, even if he's never been shown what WordPerfect can do, or how easily WordPerfect does what it does. I, personally, have used both Word and WordPerfect, and I can't tolerate Word; nothing in Word makes sense, from an author's point of view, whereas WordPerfect is very clear about everything, and is also so easy to customize, I can do anything I need.
Ugh you sound like a mac fan. It's "so much easier" for you because you're an idiot and wordperfect has no options.
WordPerfect has thousands of options; you're the one who sounds like an idiot. In WordPerfect, which I've used for years, I can do anything except HTML that can be done in Word more easily, and with fewer frustrations. I do like Macs, and I do have one, but your blanket statement makes you sound like a moron. Perhaps you should think before you respond.
> You're wrong about world perfect- MS Office has always been the premiere office suite.
Umm, MS Office hasn't always existed.
When WordPerfect was the leading word processing software, the only component of what is now Office that actually existed was Word, but it was nowhere near as well-known and popular as Word Perfect. There were also still people who swore by WordStar, in a get-off-my-lawn sort of way. The major spreadsheet was Lotus 123, and the major database (on microcomputers) was dbase. Microsoft Works existed, but it was... not very featureful.
We're about the eighties here, though, when people were still using DOS 5, and *all* of the above-mentioned software ran in text mode, so it didn't matter what kind of graphics adaptor you had. (MDA would even work if you didn't need color.) You also didn't need a 386 to run any of this -- it would run just fine on an 8086, and run pretty well if you had a full 640K of RAM.
The other poster seems to imply (though he does not directly state) that WP was still superior in 1996 when Windows 95 came out. This is not the case. His post is sufficiently disorganized that I'm not certain if it's something he *meant* to imply, or a symptom of poor communication, but in either case that's off by several years.
Anyway, when Windows 3.x came out, Word was updated to support it much faster than WordPerfect was, and furthermore the Windows version of Word actually fit in the GUI environment and looked like it belonged and adhered to the standard conventions; whereas, WordPerfect, like always, did everything Its Own Way. This doesn't necessarily mean it was a worse word processing suite objectively, but it looked and felt worse, *especially* to people who had never used DOS, and due to the exponential growth of the popularity of PCs during those years such people rapidly became the majority.
WP has since conformed to industry standards rather better, but the first for-Windows version of WordPerfect was pretty much just WordPerfect for DOS with basic WYSIWYG support for fonts and such. By the time Windows 95 came out, WordPerfect had pretty well been relegated to a few niche markets and was fading in popularity pretty fast. The only people who wanted to use it were people who had previously used and liked WordPerfect for DOS.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
As you can see, the average end-user doesn't need near as much memory as you do.