Windows experience index

The Windows Experience Index (that did not ship with windows eXPerience) is a number you use to understand your hardware, In fact it is a measure of the Lowest grade any hardware on your system got !

Let me tell you a bit about it, then a bit on why you may want to use it

The windows experience index is the lowest grade of one of five variables concerning your system, the experience index number comes between 1 and 5.9

Processor
Memory (RAM)
Primary hard disk
Graphics
Gaming graphics (memory)

Windows Experience index was not stable in Beta2, Now on the final edition, it is stable (so i am assuming they make the system memorize it until you change your hardware (The microsoft philosophy on making things Look good)

So, the idea seems like microsoft wants you to see how good your system is, But there is more to the number, Rather than buying software with a complicated set of minimum requirements, You should see the number and know if this software works on your system, but it is not that simple again

Assuming there is software that needs allot of memory and processor but does not care about the memory on your graphics adapter, Since the index is calculated according to the lowest number you have, you may actually be able to run that software, but your VGA card memory is making your score low so you think that you can not !

More on the index will be available here very soon.