Majority of PCs not equipped for Windows Vista upgrade, survey says
Everdream, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) desktop management vendor, says 79.9% of PCs are not fully compatible with Microsoft’s requirements for Windows Vista. This finding, which came from a survey of 145,000 business desktops owned by Everdream customers, highlights the difficulties that many companies will face when upgrading their PCs to the latest Windows operating system.
Microsoft has defined recommended requirements for “Vista-ready PCs†as 1GB of RAM, 1 GHz processor, 40GB hard drive and 15GB free hard-drive space. Microsoft defines minimum requirements as 512MB of RAM, 800 Mhz microprocessor, 20GB hard drive and 15GB of free hard-drive space.
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