With Vista, we're seeing higher processor, memory, and graphics hardware utilization in much of our testing. Microsoft's Office also represents a substantial update to the currently shipping Office While this presents users with a number of options to consider picking the right hardware config, OS and applications, etc. Since many Dell systems shipping today will migrate to Vista in January, the majority of discussions revolve around the right system configuration.
Of course, for small business and corporate customers, we'll continue to ship Windows XP. Quad core processors further those performance improvements. One of the key enhancements to Windows Vista is the Aero interface. If your PC is managed by an IT administrator, you should check with them on options for assessing eligibility and upgrading to Windows Important: With any of these scenarios where you are making changes to your PC to make it eligible to upgrade, we recommend you wait to upgrade until Windows Update lets you know that Windows 11 is ready for your device.
For those who ultimately are not able to upgrade their existing PC to Windows 11 due to device ineligibility and are not ready to transition to a new device, Windows 10 remains the right choice.
Windows 10 will still be supported through October 14, , and we recently announced that the next feature update to Windows 10 is coming later this year. Find Windows 11 specs, features, and computer requirements. Ways to install Windows Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. There may be additional requirements over time for updates, as well as requirements to turn on specific features within the OS.
Windows 10 is designed to deliver updates for the supported lifetime of the device. Two types of updates may be provided: quality updates and feature updates. Quality updates include both security and non-security updates and are typically targeted to be released once a month.
Feature updates also include security and non-security fixes as well as new features to Windows 10 and are typically provided twice a year. Ensuring that your device receives these updates and is kept up-to-date is important for your device security. When an update is available—and sufficient free disk space is available on your device—it will be automatically installed. See additional applicable details in the following notes. The size of the Windows operating system that comes with your device and the amount of space needed to download and install Windows updates, are highly variable as they depend on a variety of factors.
Visit here to learn why. The factors that impact the amount of free hard drive space needed to take an update include: the versions of Windows previously installed on the machine, the amount of disk space available to reuse from Windows files, such as the virtual memory pagefile or hibernation file, which applications are installed on your device and how those applications store data.
Starting with the May Update, the system requirements for hard drive size for clean installs of Windows 10 as well as new PCs changed to a minimum of 32GB. The 32GB or larger drive requirement is set to leave space for users to install apps and to keep data on the device. Installing Windows or updating from a previous version of Windows on devices with less than 32GB storage will continue to work if the device has enough free space available. When updating, Windows will attempt to automatically free up enough hard drive space and guide you through freeing up even more if the automatic cleanup is not sufficient.
You can also take steps to free up space on your own. For more information, see Free up space to install the latest Windows 10 update or visit the related FAQ. In addition to the requirements above that are needed to run Windows, some features have additional requirements.
In some cases, features included with updated versions of Windows 10 will be best experienced with newer processors. Below are some additional details regarding requirements for key features:. When upgrading to Windows 10 from a previous version of Windows such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.
Please see below for information regarding some of the key removed features:. The following changes impact devices that are upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8. Windows Vista known as Longhorn prior to its release has been developed by Microsoft to be used on home and business desktop and laptop systems. Windows Vista was released 4 years after the release of Windows XP which is considered as the most successful and reliable Windows operating system.
The most notable change in Windows Vista is its looks. The graphical user interface of Windows Vista has been completely overhauled and some new features have been included in it. The search option has been improved substantially and you can search your required data within no time.
Windows Vista has introduced Windows Shell which is offering navigational and organizational capabilities. Internet browsing has been improved greatly with the introduction of Internet Explorer 7.
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