Are you Vista Ready

Everytime Microsoft announces a New Operating System, people seem to spread rumours, on how they got Beta Test copies, or how they modified their existing OS's to look like the upcoming OS. The biggest release as Per Microsoft, in the Desktop Environment is Vista. Some of the tech journals, look at Jan 2007 (The now estimated date of launch for Vista), to be the dooms day for MS, where people will sit up and realise, that their PC's are not ready, and we dont' want another OS that just looks better. Well there is more than meets the eye, but quite a bit of it is Eye Candy. For some of us, the Eye Candy part is so important that we decide to upgrade, and also keeping in mind, software vendors stop to provide support for older versions.

Anyway, if you are wondering, your PC is Vista Ready or not, check out Windows Vista: Get Ready site at Microsoft.

There are two clasifications that are out, at this time.

Vista Capable : Min 800 MHz Processor, 512 MB RAM, 15 GB Hard Disk
Premium Ready: 1 GHz 32/64 bit Processor, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB Hard Disk, and atleast 128 MB on your Graphic Card, to run Aero.

More you can test using the link above, sadly for me, no more upgrades, no more eye candy, no more windows.. I am on linux :)

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