“IT’S OFFICIAL, the next version of Windows will be called Vista and according to the Microsoft marketing puff it is connected, clear and confident” and will bring clarity to your world”, more than can be said for the way some Microsoft products are named. Until last week’s announcement, Vista was known throughout the industry and beyond as Longhorn and, despite the macho mid-western flavour, it was generally liked. Some even thought it might stick. Early incarnations of Windows were known by version numbers, until Windows 3*1, when Microsoft unaccountably switched to release dates. Many believed this was a ruse to force PC owners into unnecessary upgrades but the late arrival of Memphis or Windows 98, halfway through 1998, proved somewhat embarrassing. Microsoft wisely decided to abandon date-sensitive names in favour of more esoteric titles. Project Whistler, in theory Windows 2004, became Windows expert” or XP.
The most recent name change may be something Microsoft comes to regret - within hours of the announcement the wags had got to work on it. One effort suggested that Vista might be an acronym for Window’s top five problems, namely Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans and Adware. Vista, it transpires, is Latvian for chicken, and should the software prove the least bit disruptive or malevolent there is endless potential for linking it with the Terminator robot’s favourite catchphrase, Hasta la Vista baby”.”
Oh well I will have to upgrade the memory and video cards on my computers before I can load this, but we also know that it will be years before its out.
Min memory for 32 bit system is going to be 512 MB and it looks like you video better be up to 256 MB.
