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Hardware & Software: Windows Vista may need double the RAM that Microsoft recommends

Microsoft may recommend 1GB of memory for Windows Vista, but the CEO of Dell Computer is the first high-profile PC executive to say that's probably not enough.

Dell chief Kevin Rollins was speaking at Jiaotong University in Shanghai when the issue of Vista system requirements came up. "I think they tell you maybe one gig of memory is OK. No. Two gigs of memory would be great," he told the crowd. The story was first reported stateside in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Microsoft's hometown newspaper.

Granted, Rollins does have a vested interest in selling more hardware, as Gartner analyst Michael Silver points out. However, he also adds, "You'll never be sorry you bought more RAM."
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Video Games: Halo 3 Video Game, Coming soon

Microsoft announced that in the spring of 2007 will invite the players to prove, through Internet, the characteristics multiplayer of its hoped video game “HALO 3”.

The test will be available for the video consoles Xbox 360 and it will be possible to be acceded to her through service of games in the Network Xbox Live. Microsoft affirmed that it will consider the reaction of the users to give I touch end to the third delivery of the successful game...
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Video Games: War of the titans Microsoft Xbox 360 vs. Sony PlayStation 3

The road to the next generation in home-console gaming could have been subtitled A Tale of Two Marketing Strategies. Microsoft's Xbox 360 had its own viral marketing campaign (via Ourcolony.net, the sanctioned source of many leaked photos preceding its launch) and rode a glitzy wave of publicity that encompassed high-profile keynote speeches and a star-studded MTV special. Meanwhile, aside from sporadic press releases touting the power of the company's next-generation Cell processor, we heard little to nothing from Sony and its highly anticipated PlayStation 3; fans hoping for "official" leaks of teaser images and hard specs were left disappointed. ..
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