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Old 05-21-2006, 01:50 PM   #1
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Default microsoft royally fucks itself

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...cid=1106571591

After months of waiting and all sorts of rumors, Microsoft eventually confirmed the hardware requirements for their far-too-many-times delayed Windows Vista, which is supposed to amaze everyone from January 2007.

As many experts had already announced, Windows Vista will require much from the PCs where it will be installed when it comes to resources. For minimum functionality, Windows Vista will need an 800 MHz processor, at least 512 MB of RAM, a 20GB HDD and at least 15GB free, as well as a SVGA- and DirectX 9- compliant video card. The PCs which meet these requirements will be labeled by Microsoft as "Vista PC Capable".

However, the users who want to be thrilled by the Aero interface experience – presented as one of Windows Vista's biggest innovations – will have to own a PC with a processor of at least 1 GHz, 1GB or RAM memory, a video card with 128MB, a HDD of at least 40GB and an internal or external DVD-ROM. These PCs will be "awarded" by Microsoft with the "Vista Premium Ready" label. Aside from the system requirements, the PC certifying program and the designing of a web site which should act as a counsellor for those who want to know which conditions must be met by their PCs in order to run Windows Vista were the other two important news announced by Microsoft.

Nobody was expecting Windows Vista not to want more from the PCs (this being one of the mantras respected by Microsoft with each new OS launch), but this time the software giant pushed things a bit too far.

As these requirements were published, Windows Vista seems to have become a more and more complicated business for Microsoft. After their promised OS set a new record for the most postponed Windows in the history of the company different release dates were also set for companies and for regular users, now Microsoft comes up with system requirements which aren't even met by more than half of the computers in a company's labs. Do Microsoft officials really think that there will be companies which will decide to add 128MB video cards to their computers just so their employees can play with the mouse in the Aero interface? There are already some experts, like those from the Gartner analysis company, who recommended companies to wait a bit until they finally decide to acquire Windows Vista for their computers. Now, with such hardware requirements, the number of clients who will buy the OS is expected to become even lower.

As for the regular users, does Microsoft actually hope that they'll rush into stores during the winter holidays in order to buy "Windows Vista Ready" PCs or components to upgrade their own computers just to run Windows Vista in January 2007?

And, as experience taught us with the last Windows version, the offiical system requirements are really minimum, so those who'll want to run other software applications as well aside from Windows Vista will need to add even more RAM, processing power or a better video card.

So, as if the problems that Windows Vista was already facing weren't enough, Microsoft seems to insist even more on driving customers away from their new OS. Not to mention the fact that, lately, PC sales are not going very well either, as notebook computers gain more and more market share instead. And if you'll have the curiosity to consult some notebook computers offers, you'll notice that there aren't many entry-level or mid-range configurations which more or less meet Windows Vista's requirements.

Microsoft seems to forget that, since the release of Windows XP, some things have changed in the world of technology and actually hopes that Windows Vista will boots PC sales. But this once, in the complex economical climate nowadays, Microsoft seems to have miscalculated things. And this may cost the company dearly, especially now, when a failure should have been out of the question.

 
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