Cross-tabular analysis — “one of those ‘nerdy’ sounding terms that statisticians like to use when expounding upon their latest data-mining gems” — is the lifeblood of InfoWorld‘s Windows Sentinel project. Using tidbit pulled from Windows Sentinel’s cross-tabular analysis, Randall C. Kennedy exposes in his blog, how “not only is Vista ‘fatter’ than XP, it’s also more demanding at a very fundamental level. Hence the need for beefier client hardware with lots of cores.”Kennedy also outlines how “Vista-based PCs are experiencing roughly 30% higher memory pressure, across the board, than their XP brethren. “But you don’t need lots of fancy abstract statistics to tell you that. Just boot the thing … and wait … and wait … and wait …” Software Development