[aipz]

Why would any operating system use that much resources from an average computer?

It's obvious that some programs need much resources like high detailed computer games, film/graphic/video/sound/music
editors all the like

But an operating system ?!
3D menu
support for some twisted monitors which aren't even available yet
required to run this OS?

Where is the world going?

These requrements would be ok if that OS would be released in 2010 or near that year (+/- 2 years) when these requirements are widely acceptable...

They should be working more on safety/bugfixing/stability issues
rather than some fancy gadgets which aren't that much needed

These features would be ok for a even newer OS generation than Vista...

[bash]

Well, looks like they have some sense on reality left. Aperantly, Vista will come with Luna as a second class GUI.

http://www.golem.de/0509/40285.html

[SadisticSid]

Well it was bound to, you're not going to get servers with 256MB graphics cards after all. Do we know if the sidebar's been officially scrapped now?

[Grey Wolf]

There's about 5 GUIs, if you take a look at the Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Graphics_hardware_requirements

Also, honestly, I think these requirements are more realistic: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/VistaBeta1FS.mspx

[Flipside]

What I want is an Operating System, something that provides the functionality to run other programs on my computer, which was why I bought the damn thing. I don't want something that's going to eat so much RAM, HD access and screen time that it's slowing everything else down to a crawl and eats all your resources. Vista sounds far far more like the latter.

[Turnsky]

Vista sounds like bloatware to me, too much resource use to do the same thing that XP can do..

[Ford Prefect]

I'm clinging to Windows 2000 as long as humanly possible.