Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Sep 2005 10:36 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Just weeks after releasing Windows Vista Beta 1, Microsoft has shifted our paradigms again, unveiling a preview of beta 2 at the TechEd 2005 developer conference. Also, "hardware vendors are going to love the news that Windows Vista is going to need very beefy hardware to run well. At Microsoft's TechEd conference, Dan Warne finally managed to squeeze blood from a stone - or rather, answers about Longhorn's hardware requirements from Microsoft."
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2005-06-29
Not really... You're thinking of game distributors. I've run Windows XP on close to the base spec systems and it runs usably (barely).
I think the 2GB of RAM one of the surprising part. I'm not sure what the OS is doing to hog RAM. The OS itself should hog as little RAM as possible...