Windows Vista Premium requirements detailed

Posted on Thursday, June 15 2006 @ 3:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Microsoft broke down the requirements for the Windows Vista logo program into two categories: Basic and Premium.

To get a Windows Vista Premium logo sticker PC makers will need to include the following things:

Must have H.264 hardware decoding
Must have HDCP
Must support multi-monitor support
Must have HD audio
Must have HD audio jack presence detection
Must have Serial ATA 2.5
Must have minimum of 50MB NV cache on hybrid HD's with at least 8MB/sec write 16MB/sec read (for mobile only)
Must support booting from USB flash drives
Must have Windows Vista Green Button on all remotes
Must have Green Driver Quality Rating (DQR) (Green score of 7 to 9)

More info about the requirements over at DailyTech.

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