Do Microsoft's Vista hardware guidelines meet the mark?
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
While the final hardware requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system won't be made public until next summer, testers say the first beta release of the operating system is performing moderately well on existing PC hardware.
Microsoft released to testers the first beta of Vista one week ago. As it has been doing for the past couple of years, Microsoft is declining to specify the minimum hardware requirements for the operating system for now Microsoft did offer some general guidelines, saying that Vista beta 1 should run on "a majority of modern computers that can run Windows XP, carry the 'Designed for Windows XP' logo, have a mainstream processor from Intel or AMD, and have 512 MB of RAM," a Microsoft spokeswoman reiterated this week.