User:Aero Flame/Mönch

Windows Mönch are the alpha and beta test versions of Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. Windows Mönch instead of the Google Pack with Mozilla Firefox, has Internet Explorer 5 (I think...), Microsoft Office Word Viewer, and Windows Messenger (as always). These were created in 2005, 3 years after Windows XP came out. Released in July 2006 as Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, they give you an option to install the Google Pack. Since this was designed for older PCs, not able to handle Windows XP or [Windows Vista]], the gace you worse graphics, as in "everything was fuzzy". Mönch is strong enough to play games, just not much. It is only a low-power, combined version of Windows XP and Windows 2000. For more info see Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs.

Windows XP "Mönch" is purported to be an upcoming release of Microsoft Windows similar to Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs that is targeted towards low-end machines that cannot run the full Windows XP or Windows Vista desktop operating systems. Little is known about this release, though technology web site bink.nu published in 2005 some specifications for this release:

64MB RAM (128MB Recommended)
Pentium class processor
500 MB HD (1GB recommended)
800x600 graphics or higher
Network Interface Card
Standard & ACPI Chipsets
ISA, PCI, AGP, USB, ATA/IDE, SCSI, AC’97, Smartcards
Support for most standard components in legacy PCs
Deployment Methods: Setup wizard, Unattended setup, Remote Installation Server (PXE/RIS), Systems Management Server
Boot Methods: Hard Disk, UFD, Flash, PXE/RIS, Multicast Remote Boot (over PGM)

User Feature Set:

All Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs features
Windows Devices (PDA, Smartphone, …)
Windows Image Acquisition
Wireless networking auth (802.1X)
VPN Support
Advanced IP Security
Servicing: Windows Update Services, Systems Management Server
Standard Microsoft management technologies (WMI, MMC …)
Not supported: Telephony, Dial-up

Codename[edit]

Just like previous Microsoft Windows codenames, Zach Van Nuys, Mönch is the name of a mountain. Whistler and Blackcomb are in British Columbia; Eiger (the codename for Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs) and Mönch are located in Switzerland.

External links[edit]

http://bink.nu/Article3812.bink