Another item for the fiendishly clever marketing ideas file: Microsoft is apparently building into Vista a tool that will rate your PC based on how well it runs that operating system's capabilities.
According to a cNet report, the "Windows Performance Rating" system evaluates PC components such as the processor, memory, hard drive, and graphics cards to come up with an overall score.
Microsoft is still working on the grading system and declined to provide details, other than noting that "the idea behind the Windows Performance Rating is to help average consumers easily understand their Windows Vista PC's overall performance, and to simplify the process of determining whether certain software applications will run smoothly based on their system components."
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