Instead of forcing hardware companies to use Vista, MS should be forcing them to use adequate hardware to support their OS.
Obviously the Atom was not capable of running Vista acceptably, and most customers would dump all the negativity of the slow system, not with the rightful owner, but instead Microsoft and Vista. This is how Vista has acheived such a bad name. It needed increased specs, but hardware companies didnt up them.
So Microsoft need to force companies to stop using Celeron CPU's, stop using GMA950 graphics and stop shipping machines with a paltry 512mb of ram or less.
You DO NOT know what you are talking about. Vista runs perfectly well (Aero too) on the Atom. AND ... it runs with 2GB RAM.
Microsoft does not force companies to do anything. You are confusing this kind of one-sided behaviour with that iof Apple. Apple is the company which dictates what hardware should run with what software.
You are the subject of a FACTOID ( a lie told repeatedly until the feeble (that's you !) minded starts to believe it )
If you read the article, it tells you that these machines obviously wernt capable of running Vista "optimally"
MS NEED to adopt Apples way, but not in the same extent. Yes open hardware is fine, but when it wont even run your OS, and your customers are complaining. Something needs to be done.
MS cant innovate if they are stuck on Celeron processors all the time or stuck with 1gb of ram.
Show me one benchmark where the Atom beats the cheapest Celeron. Some processors are optimized for power consumption while others are optimized for performance. Remember that son.
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Instead of forcing hardware companies to use Vista, MS should be forcing them to use adequate hardware to support their OS.
Obviously the Atom was not capable of running Vista acceptably, and most customers would dump all the negativity of the slow system, not with the rightful owner, but instead Microsoft and Vista. This is how Vista has acheived such a bad name. It needed increased specs, but hardware companies didnt up them.
So Microsoft need to force companies to stop using Celeron CPU's, stop using GMA950 graphics and stop shipping machines with a paltry 512mb of ram or less.
Addertz,
You DO NOT know what you are talking about. Vista runs perfectly well (Aero too) on the Atom. AND ... it runs with 2GB RAM.
Microsoft does not force companies to do anything. You are confusing this kind of one-sided behaviour with that iof Apple. Apple is the company which dictates what hardware should run with what software.
You are the subject of a FACTOID ( a lie told repeatedly until the feeble (that's you !) minded starts to believe it )
Idiot.
@kcc
If you read the article, it tells you that these machines obviously wernt capable of running Vista "optimally"
MS NEED to adopt Apples way, but not in the same extent. Yes open hardware is fine, but when it wont even run your OS, and your customers are complaining. Something needs to be done.
MS cant innovate if they are stuck on Celeron processors all the time or stuck with 1gb of ram.
Show me one benchmark where the Atom beats the cheapest Celeron. Some processors are optimized for power consumption while others are optimized for performance. Remember that son.
You've got it backwards. UMPCs shouldn't be running a heavyweight OS like a full Windows install anyway -- Vista or XP.