Microsoft mulling 128-bit versions of Windows 8, Windows 9
Microsoft is working on 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 and Windows 9 kernels. Consequently, the company is also forming relationships with major partners, including Intel, AMD, HP, and IBM.
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7.10.2009 Forget 128-bit Windows 8, 64-bit Windows 7 Yet to Get All the Love
Forget about the possibility of Windows 8, the next iteration of the Windows operating system planned for 2011 – 2012 getting support for 128-bit processor architectures.
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16.10.2009 Windows: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit
The evolution of Windows in parallel with computing architectures can be mapped out in accordance to the following marks: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit and even further along.
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1.8.2008 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008Windows 8 and 9 may support 128-bit architecture
With Windows 7 still not available for everyone, news has surfaced that Microsoft is already researching and working on some of the architecture for
Windows 8/9, which includes "128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel." This is surprising, seeing as we're at least 3-4
years away from the next release, and still on the brink of the release of the latest version of Windows.
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08.10.2009Toshiba's 128 GB solid-state disk plays hide and seek
On Friday, Toshiba's Japanese-language Dynabook dedicated site announced a delay in availability of its 128 GB solid state drive for the SS RX model
ultra portable. Then, on the company's European site, a Portege R500 (the Dynabook's western counterpart) appeared to be configurable with a 128 GB
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15.04.2008Samsung puts 128 GB SSDs into mass-production
Samsung today said that it has begun mass producing 1.8ť and 2.5ť multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with 64 and 128 GB storage
capacity. Samsung also promises śmore attractiveť pricing, which indicates that SSD technology will become more competitive with traditional hard
drives and be in reach for more consumers.
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09.07.2008Motorola introduces a phone made from recycled water bottles
Motorola has officially jumped onto the eco-friendly bandwagon, though this bandwagon is a good one. The struggling mobile phone manufacturer has
introduced the Moto W233 Renew and is hoping people, especially environmentalists, take notice. While the Renew, as a phone, isn't that
impressive, sporting GSM connectivity and a small 1.6" screen with a 128 x 128 resolution, it's the housing that should catch your attention. The
plastics that comprise the shell of the phone are made entirely from plastics produced from recycled water bottles. This use of recycled materials
means that the manufacturing process uses 20% less energy and that the outer shell of the phone is 100% recyclable.
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07.01.2009Nvidia: Graphics is dead? Yeah right.
For the last several weeks, Nvidia has been
at war with Intel over a
statement of one of Intels engineers made at IDF suggesting that GPUs could soon be
obsolete. There is a fundamental difference in the opinion how visual computing will evolve between graphics companies and Intel: Nvidias latest
graphics card announcement is
a clear statement that the company plans to aggressively raise the performance bar and remain in the lead in this segment come Intel or high water.
As the battleground shapes up right now, the visual computing battle will be fought on three fronts - gaming, productivity,
and physics. Nvidia has moved the bar in all three fronts. The areas that are most likely to reveal interesting trends are productivity and
physics. So lets have a look at those two.
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18.06.2008128 GB memory cards possible with first 30 nm flash chips
While its possible successor technologies have been discussed for years, flash continues to scale extremely well: Samsung says it has developed the
first 30 nm chip, providing a 64 Gb capacity “ four times of what is being offered by the highest capacity mass-production chips today.
The companies latest flash chips are claimed to be the first multi-level cell (MLC) 64 Gbit NAND flash chips. Using a 30 nm production
technology, one of these chips represents a capacity of 8 GB, while a memory card (such as SD or CF-II) using 16 of these MLC chips can store a
whopping 128 GB of data. 1.8ť solid state disks using 64 of the 30 nm chips could store 512 GB.
128 GB memory cards are not
just impressive because they would provide enough room for 32,000 music files or 80 DVD movies, it is also beyond what is currently considered to be
the mainstream of hard drive storage capacity in notebooks - 80 GB. Even more interesting: According to Samsung, this technology isnt science-fiction.
The company plans to put these 64 Gb chips into mass production by 2009.
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23.10.2007Dell, Alienware offer expensive 64 GB SSD
Samsung has begun shipping 64 GB SATA in a 2.5" form factor. The NAND flash-based hard drives are expected to become available as storage options for
Dell and Alienware consumer notebooks.
According to Samsung, Alienware will be offering 64 GB and a 128 GB configuration (dual 64
GB RAID 0) as well as a single 64 GB SSD combined with a 200 GB 7200 rpm hard drive for its Area-51 m9750 notebook. Dell will be selling the SSD as an
option for the XPS M1330 notebook.
At the time of this writing, only Alienware was offering the new SSD “ as a single-drive 64 GB
option for the m9750. Customers will have to reach deep into their pockets to be able to enjoy the 64 GB SSD, as it comes at an additional cost of
$1100, which is more than twice what the vendor charges for the 32 GB model ($500). The 128 GB option will cost another $300.
When configured with the 64 GB SSD, the notebooks checks in at $3200; while it is already equipped with a 512 GB Geforce graphics chip, the
upgrade from a Core 2 Duo T5500 processor and from 1 GB memory, a DVD burner and a sound card will elevate the price to almost $4500 or $4800, if you
are interested in the 128 SSD model.
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11.09.2007Toshiba's SSD-based notebooks double their capacity
In a move to bolster its Portege notebook lineup, Toshiba today introduced a new notebook that features a single 128 GB solid-state drive...
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18.06.2008Japan Gets 1 Terabyte DVD Recorder
Hitachi has created the first 1-terabyte DVD recorder, which utilizes two 500GB hard drives to store up to 128 hours of high-definition television. The company..
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26.08.2005AMD refreshes math library to include 128-bit Barcelona support
Today, AMD released the first of what will be two major upgrades to their AMD Core Math Library (ACML) in the coming year. This first includes support
for Barcelona's native 128-bit SIMD engine. It works with Windows, Linux and Solaris, and doubles the floating point operations per clock to 8 on
Barcelona, up from 4. The major upgrade next year will include direct support for heterogeneous processing using their recently announced FireStream
64-bit stream processor.
The refresh brings ACML up to version 4.0. The library is available for free download and includes
enhancements to their base math algorithms. These include Level 1, 2 and 3 Basic Linear Alegbra Subroutines (BLAS), Linear Algebra (LAPACK) routines,
Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) in single, double, single-complex and double-complex data types, scalar, vector, array and transcendental math
functions. A pseudo-random number generator is also included with both single and double precision generation.
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12.11.2007IBM holds 128-thread 'Q7' variant of Power7
IBM has shelved a top-secret chip project meant to give the company a massively multi-threaded part that could have served as a major disrupter in the
Unix world, The Register has learned.
According to information obtained by El Reg, IBM's processor boffins have been exploring
something known as Q7. This processor was a possible follow on to today's Power6 and included support for up to 128 software threads. IBM considered
Q7 a type of radical take on Power7, since the product centered more on many low-power cores rather than fewer more powerful cores.
In the end, IBM decided that Q7 would not deliver the mainstream performance needed by most of its Unix server customers. So, the vendor has set
to work on a Power7 design that should arrive around 2010 with, oh, four to eight cores. The design work remains in process, making those figures very
fluid. (We've heard chatter about each core supporting up to four threads.)
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14.09.2007Apple Says 'No ZFS' in Leopard
Apple executives at WWDC said
that Mac OS X Leopard will not
use Sun's ZFS 128-bit file
system, contrary to reports
that surfaced last week.
Apparently, somebody forgot to
tell Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz, who told a
conference that Apple would
announce the switch Monday...
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12.06.2007Windows Live FrameIt Beta Service Available
Cynthia: FrameIt is a beta Windows Live service. If you haven't seen it yet, give it a try at
http://frameit.live.com.
FrameIt has some wrinkles that we are still trying to iron out and
we have a lot of features in the pipeline. Please accept our apologies if you run into any of our bugs.
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31.07.2008Windows Vista System Requirements Released
Microsoft has updated its
Get
Ready Web site to include
the minimum system
requirements to run Windows
Vista. A Windows Vista Capable
PC must include at least a CPU
running at 800MHz, 512 MB of
RAM, a DirectX 9 graphics card
capable of at least 800x600, a
CD-ROM drive and a 20 GB HDD
with at least 15 GB free for
the install. Of course,
systems with bare minimum
specifications will be unable
to run Vista in the Aero
interface.
In order
a PC to be certified as
"Windows Vista Premium
Ready," it must have at least
a 1 GHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a
DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM
driver, 128 MB of graphics
memory, Pixel Shader 2.0,
DVD-ROM drive, a sound card,
internet access and 40 GB of
hard drive capacity with 15 GB
free space. For Windows XP,
users who did not meet the
minimal requirements for XP
Home (300 MHz, 128 MB) were
still able to install and run
the operating system, albeit
rather slowly. It remains to
be seen if Windows Vista will
allow installs on machines
lesser than minimal
specification.
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21.12.2006Comparing Apple and Microsoft keynotes and Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
You really don't get a sense for Microsoft's breadth of products unless you attend an event like TechEd. At the conference you are introduced and
trained on a product list longer than your arm only to realize that TechEd basically represents only one division of the company. The respective
keynotes of Steve Jobs and Bob Muglia, who runs Microsoft's server and tools business, are showcasing the fundamental differences between the two
companies.
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14.06.2008NVIDIA GeForce 8500, 8600 Clocks, Pipes
NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 GTS,
8600 GT and 8500 GT graphics
processors are here, so let's
go over the exact
specifications. The GeForce
8600 GTS features 32-stream
processors clocked at 1.45 GHz
along with 256MB of GDDR3
memory clocked at 1.0 GHz. A
128-bit memory interface
connects the memory to the GPU
for 32GB/sec of memory
bandwidth. The GeForce 8600 GT
has the same 32-stream
processors as the GTS;
however, the unified shaders
have a 1.18 GHz clock. Memory
bandwidth is downgraded to
22.4 GB/sec thanks to slower
core and memory clocks, at 540
MHz and 700 MHz, respectively.
The GeForce 8500 GT has
16-stream processors clocked
at 900 MHz and a 450 MHz core
with DDR2 memory clocked at
400 MHz. The GeForce 8500 GT
features the same 128-bit
memory interface as the
GeForce 8600-series. Memory
bandwidth is downgraded to
12.8 GB/sec.
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17.04.2007Principled Technologies Tests Windows Vista SP1
Nick White: When Windows Vista was originally released just over a year ago Microsoft commissioned Principled Technologies to compare the overall
responsiveness of Windows Vista to Windows XP SP 2 for some common business and home tasks. With the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Principled has updated their results.
Principled Technologies concluded the following when comparing business scenarios:
- Overall, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP
performed comparably on most test operations. Performance differences between the two operating systems were typically less than a half second.
Significant differences of over a second occurred on only nine of 128 measures; Windows Vista SP1 led on eight of those.
- Windows Vista
SP1 was noticeably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP on several common business operations.
- Overall, Windows Vista SP1 was
more responsive than Windows Vista on most comparisons. Performance differences between the two operating systems were typically less than a quarter
second.
Principled Technologies also concluded the following when comparing home scenarios...
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27.02.2008Nvidia GeForce 8800 specs a week before launch
Sources in Taiwan again
confirmed that Nvidia's
upcoming GPU (graphics
processing unit) GeForce 8800
(formerly codenamed G80) is
designed to fully support
Microsoft's DirectX 10 Shader
Model 4.0 technology. Nvidia
is scheduled to officially
launch the new GPU on November
8, the sources said.
The sources also revealed
that two expected versions of
the GeForce 8800, the GeForce
8800 GTX and the GeForce 8800
GTS, will vary in features
such as the number of stream
processors (128 and 96,
respectively), core clock
(575MHz and 500MHz) and
shader-engine clock (1350MHz
and 1200MHz). Both versions
will be SLI ready, with 16x
full-screen antialiasing and
128-bit floating-point high
dynamic-range (HDR) lighting
technology.
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01.11.2006Vista not playing well with IPv6
Early adopters of Microsofts
new Vista operating system are
reporting problems with its
implementation of IPv6, a
long-anticipated upgrade to
the Internets primary
protocol.
IPv6
supports a 128-bit addressing
scheme, which lets it support
an order-of-magnitude more
devices that are directly
connected to the Internet than
its predecessor, IPv4. IPv6
also has autoconfiguration,
end-to-end security and other
enhancements.
Vista
supports IPv6 by default.
Vista runs a single-stack,
dual-IP-layer architecture,
which means it is IPv4- and
IPv6-capable out of the box.
It supports tunneling of IPv6
traffic over an IPv4 backbone
and includes IPSec that works
for both IPv4 and IPv6. ..
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07.06.2007Final Windows Vista System
Specs Revealed
Microsoft just relealed the
final Windows Vista Hardware
Requirements. There you go,
you'll need the following
machine to run Vista:
Minimal Specs
(Called Vista-Ready PCs):
-800Mhz Processor
-512 MB of RAM
-DirectX 9-Capable Graphics
Processor
Recommended Specs (Called
Premium-Ready PCs):
-1
Ghz Processor
-128 MB
Graphics Memory, numerous
other graphics-related
requirements
-1 GB
System Memory
Microsoft also plans to make
an advertisement campaign
around those required
machines, in order to make
people be sure their machine
will meet those requirements,
and this campaign should be
revealed on May 18th, in this
case tomorrow.
This announcement was made
to prepare the also planned
WinHEC release of Windows
Vista Beta 2 (Supposedly Build
5384, last known compiled
build as of today), which will
likely be made public in the
days following its release at
WinHEC.
These
requirements are about what
was expected, maybe a little
bit below. As previously
announced, most PCs sold
within last year might be
Vista-Ready, though very few
fully meet the Premium-Ready
requirements.
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