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Vista will be a RAM hog

When you create an operating system used by 95% of the world and have to consider all of the random peripherals, software plugins, and millions of options it would take to cover every possible scenario of someone using your software you are bound to use up some disk space. According to this article it appears that the new Windows VISTA will be using 800mb of memory (at a minimum) and probably take up 7 gig of diskspace. Seems a bit excessive but I'm sure they are just trying to cover their bases. The impending switch may be coming soon...