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With Microsoft announcing that the highly anticipated release of its newest Operating system named Vista, is to be held back, one would be forgiven for thinking that it would be for crucial testing. Well sadly you may be slightly off the mark.

MS is instead designing "Windows Vista Capable" stickers for PCs in anticipation of the release of the 50 million lines of Vista code to business users (end-2006) and consumers (probably beginning-2007). Well at least they have their priorities right. Although the stickers will obviously be there to tempt new users into an early update, the stickers merely say that the PC is capable of running an incarnation of Vista. Microsoft is keen to point out that some PC?s may only be able to run stripped down versions of Vista and not the full blown package.

According to sources, a PC can get the sticker only if it has a "modern" CPU; is able to run - to competently run Windows XP, 512MB of RAM, a DirectX 9-class graphics processor, and optionally support Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) so as to take advantage of Vista s improved graphics.

So those of you wanting to purchase ?budget? systems, may find that your new rig can only run a minimalist version of Vista. God I?m glad I don?t work in support.
Source: TechTree


For more info on some of Vista new funky Features look Here
And for an insight into the future of Direct X as we know it, see Here

Im not buying it either

Oh btw, when WinXP becomes non-viable, I intend to go linux only.

I ran Win3.1 for at least a couple of years after they stopped selling it, guess Im going to do the same with XP and when I cant Ill be moving to Linux too

Might leave my games machine with Windows but thats it.

Just another add on to Windows NT.

Quote from: brummie

Just another add on to Windows NT.

still, could be worse, everything before 2K was just an add on to DOS

your right that would be worse :-)