Microsoft reveals Vista checklist

Trogan (Trogan) Microsoft has revealed how powerful computers must be to run Vista - the new version of its Windows operating system.

May 21, 2006 10:48 AM ET in News

Microsoft has revealed how powerful computers must be to run Vista – the new version of its Windows operating system.

Microsoft has released “minimum” and “recommended” specifications for Vista.

[b]VISTA HARDWARE CHECKLIST[/b]
Minimum Recommended
[b]Processor[/b] 800MHz 1GHz 32 or 64 bit
[b]System Memory[/b] 512MB 1GB
[b]Graphics card[/b] DirectX 9 capable Runs Windows Aero
[b]Graphics Memory[/b] – - 128MB
[b]Free space on[/b] 15GB 15GB
[b]Hard Drive[/b]

The minimum means that the operating system will run but some new features will be disabled. Recommended means that this is what is needed to get the most basic configuration of the whole package working.

Microsoft has said that Vista will go on widespread release in January 2007.

Vista, formerly known as Longhorn, is Microsoft’s long awaited update to the Windows family of operating systems and makes some big changes to the way that the software works.

Source: BBC

3 Comments:

  1. 22 May '06, 7:28 am

    For comparison, here's Microsofts minimum / recommended specs for XP:

    Minimum:

    233MHz Processor
    64MB RAM
    1.5GB Hard drive
    SVGA card

    Recommended

    300MHz Processor
    128MB RAM
    1.5GB Hard disk
    SVGA card

    Now, you can guess how well XP actually runs on those minimum specs so I'm assuming the same is true of the Vista specs.

  2. shwaip
    24 May '06, 3:34 am

    you can also guess how well it runs on the recommended specs.

    XP runs like a frozen slug on a rig with less than 256 MB of ram.

  3. airbornflght
    24 May '06, 10:18 pm

    well, i guess my 2800 a64 is about done then. although, I have no intent of going with vista after finding out all the dandy "Privacy Protection" and all that built into it. I'd think that I should have to trust me computer and not the other way around, after all, I did pay for the thing.

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