Giving them what they want
News sites have been ablaze with stories on Microsoft Vista of late, proclaiming everything from severe hardware requirements to confusing SKUs being announced. But have any of them bothered to speak to Microsoft?
01 November 2005
Microsoft has a similar problem to McDonalds; no matter what the fast-food giant does to their menu, they will probably always be accused of producing plastic. The online news carriers were recently ablaze with stories of Windows Vista.
The first one proclaimed that Vista had ridiculously high hardware requirements and that users would have to buy new computers just to run it. They claimed that Vista would require 2 gigabytes of RAM to run smoothly and a PCI-Express graphics adaptor due to the new system of rendering vectors as opposed to the traditional bitmap-rendering of the Window`s graphical user interface (GUI).
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