Some people are getting excited over the launching of the newest Microsoft innovation, the Windows Vista. And most probably, if you are one of them, you've already gone over the MS Vista webpage to check out if your PC's specs could handle and run the version of Vista that seems like the panacea for all your needs and woes.

However, the MS Vista webpage that would check out your PC's specs isn't all that accurate. You see, an 800MHz CPU with 512MB of memory, DirectX 9 graphics card, and a TV tuner card gives that would supposedly comprise your ticket to Windows Vista Ultimate are just the minimum requirements and not the recommended ones. We leave it to you to imagine what would happen if you install the Vista on a computer with those specs...

Allegedly, Microsoft is aware of this problem, so to remedy it, they published a hardware list that has a lower than usual limit to put across the message that the Vista won't be a occupy most of your hardware. Then it distributes a far stricter list of hardware to its OEM partners to ensure Vista will run properly on the PCs that will go on sale in the coming months. You gotta admit, that's a smart move on Microsoft's part.

And to add more woes to that, apparently, the terminologies in the Windows Logo Program Requirements aren't that accurate as well. The definition of 'desktop', 'mobile', and 'ultraportable' are also skewed. The definitions are important because your system requirements should match with the ones written in the Windows Logo Program, now if you can't classify your computing device properly, then you'll encounter some problem.

Hopefully, when Vista's released (November 2006 for the Business Edition and January 2007 for consumer editions), this problem will be fixed. Microsoft has a reputation of not backing out and never giving up on a problem.