{"id":548270,"date":"2006-03-17T06:34:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T06:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548270-windows-vista-rates-itself.html"},"modified":"2006-03-17T06:34:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T06:34:44","slug":"windows-vista-rates-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548270-windows-vista-rates-itself.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista rates itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">On display at last week\u2019s Intel Developer\u2019s Forum (IDF), several machines demonstrated the rating system based on a scale from 1 to 5. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft is still secretive about the exact methodology behind its rating but users can be assured that if Microsoft is doing it the competition is interested.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe idea is to help average consumers easily understand their Vista Pac\u2019s overall performance\u201d Microsoft told CNET news.com. This would help retailers, manufacturers, and support staff to understand a particular machine\u2019s capabilities.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It is as yet unclear if this feature will incorporate improved hardware specifications, which could lead all machines to eventually score a perfect 5. On the other hand, a dynamic scale might create the impression that a computer is loosing value.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A complimentary tool might also be included, labelled \u201cWindows Upgrade Advisor\u201d. This tool will analyse the hardware and make suggestions as to which hardware should be upgraded to improve Vista performance.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Consumers are concerned about the high hardware requirements of Vista, which might make many of today\u2019s acceptable computers obsolete by November when Vista is expected to hit the shelves.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=39537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of Microsoft\u2019s operating system \u2013 Vista \u2013 will include a tool called \u201cWindows Performance Rating\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}