Tag: UPGRADEADVISOR

Last week Microsoft announced the official hardware requirements for Windows Vista and released an "Upgrade Advisor" tool to tell you how "Vista-ready" your computer is. Ina Fried at the CNet News blog has an interesting anecdote about running the tool on her various machines. The Upgrade Advisor told her that her four-month-old Compaq with 512MB of RAM was not Vista-ready and her laptop would run ...

After lots of hemming and hawing, today Microsoft published the official hardware requirements for Windows Vista. There are two classes of requirements: "Vista-capable," which means a computer will run Vista but not many of the bells and whistles, and "Premium Ready," or capable of showing the pretty Aero effects and other higher-end features. So what will you need to get by on Vista? An 800Mhz ...