The Highlander Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium. Within these figures, 41 percent and 78 percent, respectively, require RAM upgrades to meet the minimum and premium system requirements of Vista, says a new study by Softchoice Corp., which is expected to be released later this week. In comparison, when Windows XP was released, some 71 percent of the PCs met its system requirements, Softchoice services consultant Dean Williams said in an executive summary of the report. "At the time of release 71 percent of the PCs met the system requirements for Windows XP, whereas only 50 percent of the PCs included in this study meet the minimum requirements to run Windows Vista. This difference suggests that jump in system requirements to run Vista presents a significant barrier to adoption," he said. The inventory data used in the study represents a total of 112,113 desktops from 472 North American organizations in the financial, health care, technology, education and manufacturing sectors. Twelve percent of the PCs surveyed will require CPU replacements to run Vista in its minimum configuration, while 16 percent will require CPU replacements to run Vista in its premium configuration, William said. Vista's minimum CPU requirements have increased 243 percent from those of Windows XP, which in turn had a much smaller increase of 75 percent from Windows 2000's CPU requirements. Continue At Source http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068351,00.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ml Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Not to mention the cost of upgrading their software to meet Vista standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 If you buy Vista and it won't work properly so you have to upgrade your CPU and stuff, do you then have to buy another licence because you've changed your CPU? (ref. their EULA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 I read in one of my computer magazines Brendon, where Microsoft had an application that you could download that would check all of the hardware AND software on your computer to see if it would run or be compatable with the new Vista O.S. I haven't checked it out yet but based on your question, I would assume one should do a lot of checking BEFORE he bought the new Vista and then found out it wouldn't operate correctly with whatever hardware and software he had. I have read however, that M.S. has changed it tune about only being able to load it one time on a computer. Now the EULA reads that the legal requirements are the same as for XP (not OEM however). Frank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor download to check you computer for compatability for the new Vista Operating system can be found by going to the following website: http://www.find.pcworld.com/54172 The software and hardware test for your computer requires that you have Microsoft.NET Framework installed on your computer. That advisor download will have the NET Framework download available also after you download and start the install for the advisor patch, if you do not have it on your computer. I ran the test and found all of my hardware to be compatable with any version of Vista, but for most all of the programs I have running on my computer, the advisor said there was no compatable way to check for these files. It did advise that I would HAVE TO remove my Norton Internet Security programs and my firewall program. Actuall, except for the hardware part of the test, I thought the test was worthless, as it couldn't test practically any of my programs for compatability--- Frank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 I would assume one should do a lot of checking BEFORE he bought the new Vista and then found out it wouldn't operate correctly with whatever hardware and software he had. I have read however, that M.S. has changed it tune about only being able to load it one time on a computer. Now the EULA reads that the legal requirements are the same as for XP (not OEM however). Frank... Alas, lots of people buy new software without checking to see if their hardware can run it. Look around the forums It was that abominable EULA I was poking my stick at. If they've changed it, that's for the better. I still won't queue up for a copy of Vista, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Yeah Brendon, there are a lot of people like me too that have no way of checking if the software I DO have will be compatable with Vista. So for all those that may be thinking of doing an upgrade on their computer---Good Luck !! And from the article I read in my PCWORLD magazine, there was so much fuss about the first EULA requirements for Vista that MS tucked their tail and decided to change it. So now the newest EULA for Vista can be installed on any computer more than once same as XP, assuming you remove it on all other computers you have. That does NOT include OEM however as I suggested in my previous post. Frank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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