According to the Microsoft website, you need to have the following for Vista to work. This does not mean that the software will run as smoothly as you would like it to because these are the minimum requirement:

• A processor of at least 800MHz
• 512 Megabytes of memory in your system
• A direct x 9 compatible graphics card

If your computer is better than average (recently bought or built in the last 2 years), you can use premium features of the software. Vista will run very smoothly with these requirements met:

• 1 GHz CPU
• 1 GB memory in your system
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver
• 128 MB of graphics memory
• Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel
• 15 GB of free hardrive space open for use as well as a maximum of 40GB
• The rest is sound and internet access. If you don’t have internet access, how are you reading this?

Vista will, of course, be different from computer to computer so please don’t take these specifications at their minimum. If you really want to make sure Vista will work for your computer, make sure you have more than what these specifications indicate. For more information on the Microsoft recommended Vista hardware refer to Microsoft’s website, www.microsoft.com

Basically, what you are going to be reading about at first are the latest features while people are still trying out the new software. For example, a friend of mine, who bought the software said that the software is good but you can’t download anymore “bootleg” software. Sorry to all of those people who like the free stuff.

Stay tuned for the latest updates in later posts.