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Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-a-little-slower dept.

Stoobalou writes "Microsoft exec Tami Reller told attendees at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 taking place in Los Angeles yesterday that any PC capable of running Windows 7 today would be capable of running Windows 8 when it is released, towards the end of the year."

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  1. Re:Windows 8 by tunapez · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    NT>2000>XP>Vista>7>8 = NTFS + Eye Candy and new iterations of poor security. Oh, and that bloat, bloat, bloating winsxs folder that's over 12GB in 4 months. What happened to WinFS?

    Windows 98 is looking pretty advantageous these days...kernelex

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