Microsoft: Windows 7 will not need much of hardware resources

22nd November 2008

Microsoft at the conference of WinHEC promised that the operating system Windows 7 will be less demanding of computer hardware resources as compared to Windows Vista.
According to a representative of Windows Core Operating System department, many users complain that their machines work too slow under Windows Vista. Windows 7will be booted at least a few seconds faster than Windows Vista for a parallel rather than serial drivers connection. In addition, in Windows 7 there will be a reduced number of services originally activated with the start of the system.
Microsoftâ€™s authorities point out that the new OS will require less memory because of a part of the computational burden will be laid on the graphics controller. Besides, the software giant plans to improve support of modern multi-core processors, increasing the time of laptopsâ€™ stand-alone work by 11%.
Microsoft also hopes that Windows 7 will be able to be used under netbooks, low-cost computers with limited hardware resources.
During the presentation, the corporation showed that at the current stage the operating system can run under the notebook Asus Eee PC with 1 GB of RAM, relatively weak processor and 16 GB HDD.