| Is Microsoft a danger to the environment? |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 26 November 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 In addition, the advent of the Internet, while it seemingly scared the life out of Microsoft, has actually been a boon for both the software company and Intel. Through necessity, the Internet has spawned a software security industry that consumes additional computing resources for Intel and provides Microsoft with fuel to develop its next more secure release. The latest example of the combined software and hardware largesse of Microsoft and Intel is Windows Vista. This is an operating system which takes up at least 4GB of disk space when installed, requires at least 2GB RAM, a cranked up dual core processor running at 2Ghz or more and a dedicated graphics card to provide acceptable performance. However, if you want really good performance with Vista you need a system like mine - a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB RAM and a Nvidia GeForce GPU with 256 DDR2 - basically a gamer's box. We have two Vista boxes in our office. The one with the lower specs mentioned above performs acceptably - about as good as a 512MB XP Service Pack 2 box with a late model Pentium 4 processor. On my box, Vista actually performs quite well. It's not a bad operating system if you have tons of resources. The above pretty much sums up what independent consultants and Microsoft itself has said about Vista - it likes memory (not to mention processing power). The more memory you give Vista the better it performs and about 4GB is what it needs to perform well. Plus if you add in a dedicated GPU things will be sweet and you'll probably find that Vista is actually a pretty good operating system to work with. So what's the problem? CONTINUED |
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