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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:It's almost like by jandrese · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heck, most of the extra resource requirements for Vista were due to the new DRM subsystem. Without that, it would have run on pretty much anything that XP was already running on, minus some very low memory systems.

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