M$ Vista rating system tells you if your PC's useless
 

Avoid humiliation. Spend moreAN INTERESTING report at news.com shows that Microsoft has developed a "rating system" intended to help end users find out how well their hardware runs the Vista operating system.

The report is here.

Microsoft told the reporters that it couldn't supply further details of the rating system because it was still in the testing stage, but we have a small suggestion for the software firm.

Why don't you tell us what sort of machines we should buy before they have Vista installed on them? That way, we wouldn't be humiliated by finding we'd bought a pup after the fact.

Of course, if retailers are going to advertise systems in their offline or online stores as having poor scores or good scores, that would help the poor benighted buyer to avoid any potential humiliation and buy a superior PC. But we can't see that happening. Can you?

The INQuirer