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Microsoft has updated its Get Ready website to include the minimum system requirements for Windows Vista. As Nick White pointed out in the Windows Vista Team blog, you need a minimum of 800 MHZ, 512 MB RAM, a DirectX9 graphics card, and etc. You can view more information at the Windows Vista Get Ready website.
Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/capable.mspx
I think it's worth pointing out, though, that those minimum requirements, like all MS's minimum requirements for previous operating systems, are the absolute barest minimum to allow Vista to run. If you installed Vista on an 800MHz with 512 RAM it would be one slow dog of a PC :rolleyes:
A more realistic minimum would be a 1.5GHz CPU and 1GB RAM, in my opinion. And if you want the Aero interface you need a fairly decent graphics card too.
I think this Minimum requirements is going to go like when XP came out with the minimum, lots of people being disappointed in how their computer runs. I know a lot of people who believed they could run XP on their slow computers to find it just wasn't true, and afterwards trash talked xp. I know Microsoft wants to make money, but this is ridiculous. Why do they never get it right. :D
Maybe MS believes and practices P.T. Barnum's maxim...."You can fool some of the people all of the time...":(