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Offline Simon

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Windows 8 will work on all Windows 7 PCs
« on: July 12, 2011, 23:44 »
Microsoft has pledged that the minimum system requirements for Windows 8 will be the same or even lower than those of Windows 7.

Since the fiasco over Windows Vista's system requirements ended in an embarrassing lawsuit, Microsoft has avoided raising the bar with successive operating systems.

Windows 7 had the same minimum system requirements as Vista, and now Microsoft has promised to follow suit with its forthcoming OS. "In both of our Windows 8 previews, we talked about continuing on with the important trend that we started with Windows 7, keeping system requirements either flat or reducing them over time," said Tami Reller, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows division, speaking at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference. "Windows 8 will be able to run on a wide range of machines because it will have the same requirements or lower."

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Re: Windows 8 will work on all Windows 7 PCs
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 08:12 »
M$haft being wise after the event yet again. 

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Re: Windows 8 will work on all Windows 7 PCs
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2011, 10:08 »
they will just FAIL in some equally silly way.
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