Alongside its announcement that Windows 10 would be coming on July 29, Microsoft also revealed the system requirements for its new OS, and they appear built for widespread adoption of the new operating system upgrade.

In order to take advantage of the free upgrade, users will need to be running the latest version of either Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.1. Beyond that, users will need at least a 1 GHz processor or System-on-a-Chip, a display with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels, and a graphics card that supports DirectX 9 or later with a Windows Display Driver Model 1.0 driver. Users of 32-bit Windows 10 will need 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of free hard drive space, while 64-bit users will need 2 GB of RAM and 20 GB of available storage space.

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