Windows 8 system requirements

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Microsoft has unleashed a developer preview of Windows 8 today and with it announced the system requirements also.

Windows Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:
 
 • 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

 • 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

 • 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

 • DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

 • Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

You can get the developer preview of Windows 8 in 32-bit here 64-bit here.