System Requirements Quotes

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN.

Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?