Um, I am sorry to say this is total crap. The idea of running any modern OS from Apple, Linux, Windows or anything else on 128 MB of RAM is a joke. XP runs like crap on 128, so why do people continue to print stuff like this knowing that PC manufacturers will try to sell computers with this amount of RAM and the new OS? Who knows. I guess it is just to prove that it is ‘possible’.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that Longhorn is going to look and run quite differently on those older systems. Computers with a 3GHz processor and 512MB of memory, for example, will get all of the bells and whistles including fancy graphics and the ability to handle multiple video streams. According to its early testing, Microsoft says that older PCs–probably those with as little as 128MB of memory–will be able to run Longhorn, but the OS may not look like it does on a newer, more powerful machine.

Many of these older machines that run Longhorn will have experiences that are “quite XP-like,” said Richard Russell, a developer in Microsoft’s Windows core operating system division. [Read the rest]