Yesterday Microsoft announced the next major update to Windows, called Windows 10. The OS will bring with it many new features and even though we only saw the technical preview today, there will be more bits for the consumer announced in early 2015. While it was not said on stage, at least, I didn't catch it if they did, it does look like Windows 10 will have the same hardware requirements as Windows 8. I can conclude this based off of a tweet by Frank Shaw, lead communications for Microsoft, who said that they specs would be the same. As a quick refresher, Windows 8.1 specs are listed below:

- Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2
- RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
- Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

If you are thinking this is the exact same for Windows 7, the specs are nearly identical but there are a few small differences. Notably, a Windows 7 machines CPU does not need to support PAE, NX, and SSE2 for the OS to operate whereas on Windows 8 and above, it needs these features.