Software giant Microsoft has unveiled the minimum and recommended system requirements for running the company's upcoming platform, Windows 10, on smartphones and desktops. According to Windows Central, during a WinHEC conference in Shenzhen, China, Microsoft revealed the kind of hardware that users would need to successfully run, boot, update and service the 'unified interface' operating system on their machines.
Microsoft also stated that Windows 10 will support screen sizes that will start from 3 inches and make their way up to 7.99 inches, which is an indication that larger screen smartphones will be released in the near future. The minimum amount of storage required to run Windows 10 will be 4 GB while the minimum RAM requirement will be 512 MB. For greater flexibility, smartphone and tablet users can download and install the necessary updates on their SD cards.
Given below are all the resolutions that the operating system will be supporting along with the amount of memory required. It should be noted that the details presented below are for smartphones and tablets.
- QSXGA (2560 x 2048) will require 4 GB or greater
- WXQGA (2560 x 1600) will require 3 GB or greater
- QWXGA (2048 x 1140) will require 3 GB or greater
- FHD (1920 x 1080) will require 2 GB or greater
- qHD (960 x 540) ) will require 1 GB or greater
- WXGA (1366 x 768) will require 1 GB or greater
- WVGA (800 x 480) will require 512 MB or greater
- FWVGA (854 x 480) will require 512 MB or greater
For desktop machines, hard drive space of 16 GB or more coupled with 1 GB of RAM or greater will be required for those who plan on running the 32 bit version of Windows 10. For 64 bit versions, 20 GB of hard disk space along with 2 GB of RAM or greater will be required.
The website has also stated that Microsoft has also announced a Windows 10 compatibility program for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and partners.
