Linked by David Adams on Wed 12th Nov 2008 17:14 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
Industry analysts differ on the importance of shipping Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system before the 2009 holidays, but agree that the release of the OS needs to be swift and smooth to avoid the sins of Vista's past.
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2008-01-01
The general feeling is that most OSes that I've seen don't have higher and higher reasonable hardware requirements with each new version as Windows has. Of course other suffer too. It's absolutely crazy that you can't install most of the leading linux distros on 64 MB ram. Of course Linux would run it, but the installer often tells you you need more RAM.
In my POV Vista's only sin is that runs slower compared to XP. I mean from all the hype of better (less wasteful) scheduling, i/o priorities, i/o cancellation, memory prefetch, et al. you'd be wanting better performance. And with 512MB you won't get it. You possibly do, provided you're at least dual core and 2GB of RAM.
Now, of course you can't say for sure that the lesson is learned, but we're already seeing (from PDC) that there is push to make windows 7 not needing even better hardware.
And yes, I agree, people love to whine about way too many things. And the worst thing is to blindly pass that whining on and on ad nauseum.