What GTA 4 bloatware needs to run on Computers, none of this shite was on consoles

Check out this article for what GTA 4 PC needs:
http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/934/934268p1.html

For GTA 4 for PC you "need":
- Games For Windows
- Adobe Flash
- Internet Explorer
- SecuROM
- Rockstar Games Social Club application
- You will need an active internet connection to activate the software
- retail disk is required to be in the computer drive in order to play
- An active internet connection is required to play multi-player games
- Microsoft's .NET Framework

extra needed:
In order to upload videos to our internet site and play online multi-player modes, you will also need an active internet connection and accounts with both Rockstar Games Social Club and Games for Window-LIVE.

System Specs needed
OS: Windows
CPU:  Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, AMD X2 64 2.4Ghz
Memory: 1.5GB
16GB Free Hard Drive Space
Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

I've heard and seen multiple sites saying 1 gig of RAM for XP
2 gig of RAM for Vista
Some sites saying 512 video cards needed

Some sites saying Pixel Shader 3 video cards needed
(nvidia 7600 and higher)