Windows 7 to have same hardware requirements as Vista
Microsoft is saying that Windows 7 is a major release that will build on the technologies already present in Vista. As far as hardware requirements, Windows 7 will have similar or even slightly lower requirements than Vista.
The company is pleased with themselves over Vista saying,
"From a quality perspective, both Windows Vista SP1 and the ecosystem have delivered measurable progress in the six dimensions of quality we track — device compatibility, application compatibility, reliability, performance, battery life and security."
Chris Flores from the Windows Vista Team Blog said,
"One of our design goals for Windows 7 is that it will run on the recommended hardware we specified for Windows Vista and that the applications and devices that work with Windows Vista will be compatible with Windows 7."
Well, it’s better than nothing but rest assured that XP programs that don’t work on Vista now will most certainly not work in Windows 7. It looks like we’re looking at a new generation of compatibility. Some programs from previous versions of Windows didn’t work in Windows XP, a lot of programs didn’t work in Vista that were made for XP but at least programs for Vista will work in Windows 7.
Now, if it manages to get WinFS in there somewhere, I will truly be impressed. Windows 7 should be released three years after the general availability of Vista or in other words, by January of 2010 but if Microsoft knows what’s good, it will make every effort to have a 2009 holiday release.
Related Posts:
May 27th, 2008
This is great news for Linux fans who want Windows to stay away from the tiny PC market. Since XP Home will be extended till 2010 only for this market and Vista can’t fit on these laptops and neither can Windows 7 according to this article ….. this only must mean that MSFT is withdrawing from that segment of that market. Interesting….
May 28th, 2008
Haha I Told you. From time to time this site claimes the win7 will be saviour bla bla and now its finally revealed that it’s the same kind of thing really than vista. Lol.
Quite a long time that took from this site but better late than never.
November 14th, 2008
From what I’ve heard of windows 7 is that the compatibility issues that were being discussed are leaning towards more compatibility with XP programs, not less. I’m currently running XP and Vista (xp home 32, xp pro 64, vista business 64) The only thing i’ve noticed with compatibility are the occasional driver. 32 bit programs can run on 64 bit systems, but not vice versa. And windows 7 promises better backwards compatibility, with lower system requirements. Vista isn’t as bad as those Mac guys make it out to be. People just don’t like transition. Nobody welcomed windows 98 over 95, XP over 98…. and now Vista and Windows 7 over XP. A few years from now younger kids who grow up using windows 7 will see XP just as primitive as we see 98. The cycle continues
December 10th, 2008
Nate, you’re not entirely right. Most people liked Win98 over 95 and it was considered a “huge” improvement by many, even if some people never touched it. (The thing is of course that people who were stuck with 95 or even 3.11 got into trouble -no or poor support for USB, networks etc.) The new operating system opened up new worlds of possibilities.
But Win98 wasn’t very stable and not very secure. From that perspective XP was (and still is) a useful OS. That’s why people stick to it.
If XP really was “primitive” then it would have been abandoned like Win 3.11 and 95 by now.
It isn’t just “Mac guys” who don’t like Vista. Many devoted Windows users had problems in the beginning with drivers (and many games didn’t work). And the system requirements made many people think twice about moving to Vista. Now, most of these problems has been solved, but people stick to XP. It’s less hungry for resources and it works…”primitive” or not. The fact that Microsoft themselves now focuses on Windows 7 and try to make it more effective than Vista proves that the sceptics were right. Vista will turn into a parenthesis in the Windows history!
December 24th, 2008
The one problem with this is that some of the best games of all time are pre-vista. And i heard that Windows 7 is to discontinue binary. There needs to be an emulator for xp, because some of the best software is out there, and people can’t afford to pay for a 300+ dollar operating system and have to go buy newer versions of software.
December 29th, 2008
yup ang pelikula ni sarah ay mas maganda sa pelikula ni Kc..windows 7 go
December 30th, 2008
Windows 7 will be the better and much compatible than windows Vista OS, if they can lower the system requirements lots of Windows users will be happy! but for now i will stick to my XP SP3 OS XP still be the best OS so far.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Go 2009!!
January 30th, 2009
I’ve personally torture tested build 7000 of Windows 7. That is to say, test-run it on very outdated hardware to see how it performs. In particular, I installed it on a Pentium 3 running at 650 MHz with 512 MB of PC133 SDRAM memory.
The results were, amazingly, impressive to say the least. Start-up time was excellent, as well as desktop performance. Overall performance was roughly the same as Windows XP on the same machine.
I have high hopes for Windows 7. Only time will tell whether or not Micro$oft crushes these hopes…