I’ve been getting great questions about Windows Vista via e-mail lately and thought I would answer a few of them here. If I keep getting good questions, I’ll make this a regular feature.

Yesterday, Stefan asked about the “Windows Vista System Performance Grade”:

I don’t understand the scale really. How it works, what a 1 is, what a 10 is, and I can’t find information on these topics … It’s frustrating.

Can you possibly send some links my way, or find out, how the hell in the world this scaling system works and what it would take to get a perfect score (whatever that number might be?)

The Windows Vista System Assessment Tool runs at installation time (and later, if you change hardware) and produces an overall rating of your hardware called the Windows Experience Index. In August, my ZDNet colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes put together a really great, in-depth look at the Windows Experience Index based on an earlier beta release….

Finish the article at Ed Bott on ZDNET