Windows7 vs Vista: Comparison of upgrade requirements

  

According to a survey released by Softchoice on Thursday, in North America, 88 out of every 100 corporate PCs can run Microsoft Windows 7 systems, and when Microsoft released Windows Vista three years ago, the same region only 50% of enterprise PCs can meet the minimum hardware requirements of Vista.

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In addition, 65% can run most of the advanced features of Windows7, such as: Aero theme. At the time of Vista's release, only 6% of PCs could run Vista's advanced features.

Microsoft claims that Windows 7 requires at least 1 GHz of single-core CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 16GB of hard disk space; Vista's minimum configuration should be 800 MHz single-core CPU, 512MB of RAM and 20 GB of hard disk space.

If you run advanced features in Vista, Microsoft says users need at least 1 GHz single-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 40GB of hard disk space. However, Microsoft did not point out the configuration required to run advanced features in Windows 7, so Microsoft partner Softchoice gave a set of data for reference: 1.6 GHz single-core CPU, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of hard disk space.

According to analysis, 12% of PCs fail to meet the minimum configuration requirements of Windows 7, their memory and hard disk need to be upgraded; to meet the advanced configuration of Windows7, 35% of PCs have more memory, and 21 % PCs require a larger hard drive capacity.

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