MANILA, Philippines – Microsoft revealed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) conference in Shenzen, China on Thursday, March 19, the needed hardware requirements to properly run Windows 10.

If you’re running Windows 8.1 flawlessly right now though, you likely won’t have to change anything.

The information was provided by two presentations at the event.

One Windows 10 presentation described the needed specs for a desktop PC to run Windows 10:

• A minimum resolution of 800×600 pixels
• 1GB of RAM for a 32-bit installation or 2GB of RAM for a 64-bit installation
• 16GB of storage space for a 32-bit installation or 20 GB for a 64-bit installation
• DirectX 9 graphics support
• UEFI secure boot

Tablets will require a physical power and volume up/down feature, while a start button and rotation lock features are optional.

In the case of Windows Mobile hardware requirements, Microsoft needs a different amount of minimum memory depending on the size of the screen. There is also a 4GB minimum requirement for storage, as well as having secure boot enabled.

Also required are power and volume up/down buttons, while physical buttons for start, back, and search aren’t necessary save for low-resolution WVGA displays.

A separate presentation showed the upgrade paths available for Windows users, though it should be noted that Windows RT users will not be able to upgrade directly via physical media or Windows update.

Windows 7 users running Service Pack 1 and Windows 8.1 S14 users get the best outcome as they’ll be able to update directly from their respective Control Panel’s Windows Update utility, keeping files and programs intact in the process.

Windows 10 is expected to come out this summer and will be a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1 users for the first year of availability. – Rappler.com