Only half of today's computers support Windows Vista

According to research firm Gartner, Microsoft's new generation operating system can be installed on any computer, but it will only be fully compatible with about 50% of the systems being used.

Microsoft also provides only some basic guidelines for Vista such as 512 MB RAM and modern processing chips. This scarcity of information makes technology administrators and consumers wonder how the new configuration is best for the operating system.

For this reason, many businesses decided to wait another year after Vista was born to upgrade the system. " We are particularly interested in graphics requirements, so we will need to test it for a while before completely switching to the new program, " said Robert Rosen, Information Manager at the Dermatology Institute in Bethesda (US), said.

According to Gartner, Windows Vista needs 1 GB of RAM to perform all the features, not 512 MB as Microsoft said. In addition, if businesses adopt virtualization technology to maintain both the old operating system and Vista, they will need an additional 512 MB of RAM.

In addition, most desktops today use integrated graphics chipsets, but integrated graphics cannot support the Aero user interface in Vista as effectively as separate graphics chips from ATI and Nvidia. .

The minimum desktop system configuration for Windows Vista that Gartner predicts is the 945G chip, Pentium IV processor, 1 GB RAM, and the laptop is Core Duo, 945GM chipset and 1 GB RAM. Experts operating in the technology sector should equip 2 GB RAM and separate graphics chips.

Gartner does not mention the configuration for systems that use AMD processing equipment because Intel hardware is available in most business computers.