Windows Vista is being launched to business customers today in NYC, forbes highlight some of its bloated features in this article. But I’ve picked put some lowlights of this new operating sytem which consensus agrees is nothing more than a poor photocopy of Osx.
Vista, which will go on sale to consumers on Jan. 30, 2007, needs 1 gigabyte of memory to tile through its three-dimensional effects
Vista Consumers’ collective cost to upgrade their computers’ memory to support Vista will likely reach $17.5 billion, estimates Tom Trill, marketing director for Samsung Semiconductor, the world’s largest memory chipmaker. Computers sold this year have an average of 854 megabytes of memory, up from 630 megabytes last year, he said. To get their old machines ready for Vista, the upgrade cost will run most people $50 to $100 per computer.
For comparison, Osx Tigers amazing 3d core animations visible thoughout run on a minimum requirement of just 256mb Ram!, and according totheplaceforitall.com, Next generation Osx Leopard will also require only 256mb ram!
That’s good news for Microsoft, which can afford to develop so-far unprofitable products like the Xbox videogame console and the Zune portable music player thanks to Windows’ 70% operating margin.
Pretty disappointing that Microsoft can reap a 70% margin on this product, if they increased their spending on OS development, and lowered their margins, couldn’t they create a leaner meaner OS? Sure but you have to see they are taking care of their friends in the RAM business:
Vista Consumers’ collective cost to upgrade their computers’ memory to support Vista will likely reach $17.5 billion
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