Microsoft Discontinues Vista
By: John Vinson
It’s been alittle over the year since the release of Microsoft’s latest OS, Vista. Since it’s release it’s been met with strong criticism, and most people reverting back to Windows XP. It’s with this strong following that Microsoft has announced they will be discontinuing its’ releasing of Windows Vista.
The big criticisms that most people have with the OS, is the hefty system requirements that Vista requires. With applications requiring more out of systems, operating systems should be using less of a machine’s power, not more.
Here is a list of recommended specs for Vista:
Processor: 2 GHZ
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics Memory: 256 MB RAM
While these aren’t requirements for Vista, this is what is recommended if you want to utilize the full capabilities of the OS. Most people haven’t upgraded to machines that have these kind of specs. So Microsoft has bottlenecked it’s consumer market, instead of expanding it.
Steve Ballmer made the announcement earlier this morning, here is an excerpt from the announcement, “We at Microsoft, believe that Vista is the future of operating systems. We will continue to work and tweak Vista to make it everything an OS should be. As of now we believe that we released Vista too early before hardware requirements could catch up. So for now we will be putting releases of Windows Vista on hiatus. We apologize for any inconvenience we have caused faithful Windows owners”
As of now Microsoft hasn’t released any plans on what it will do while it puts Windows Vista on hiatus. Most experts agree that it will continue to support and release Windows XP until it can get Vista running the way it should. In case you haven’t already figured out, April Fools everybody.