Windows 8

CALIFORNIA - The Microsoft says that Windows 8 will remain 'friendly' hardware, because the operating system it can still be used with the same hardware specifications to run Windows 7.

As quoted from Toms Hardware, Sunday (17/07/2011), although Windows 8 will not be launched before 2012, but Microsoft is targeting that OS is still using the same hardware specs for Windows 7.

"In our perspective will be Windows 8, we continue to commercialize an important trend that we have started from the Windows 7, whether it's hardware specs or anything else," said Tami Reller, corporate vice president for Windows, while speaking at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

Also added by Reller that Windows 8 will be capable of operating on various machines, because it has the same hardware specs.

"In addition, we also build intelligence into Windows 8, so that it can adapt based on the hardware used by the user. So if you upgrade your PC, then Windows 8 will adapt to the hardware," said Reller.

While the required specifications for Windows 7 is:

- 1 gigahertz (GHz) or 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit processors (x64)
- 1 gigabit (GB) of RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- The DirectX 9 graphics with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver again

Source: techno.okezone.com

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