Well, my machine as it stands today has the hardware needed to properly support Vista no problem. But what about you? Does your hardware match up? Better take a good, hard look…

Within the next few weeks, Microsoft will be releasing beta 2 of Windows Vista . The actual ship date of Vista hasn’t been announced, but Microsoft’s new OS is likely to ship sometime this Fall.

Since Windows Vista (formerly codenamed “Longhorn”) was announced, some of the bleeding-edge features have been scaled back. For example, WinFS, a file system built using relational database concepts, won’t be included in the final release. But it’s likely that the Windows Vista’s feature list is now stable enough that we can predict what kind of system you’ll need to build today to accommodate the new OS. Here are a few details we do know: [Read the rest]