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April 11th - Microsoft Ends Windows Vista Support

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/11/2017 05:49 PM | source: | 33 comment(s)
April 11th - Microsoft Ends Windows Vista Support

It most certainly has had a good run for roughly 10 years, but today Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows Vista. Windows Vista goes down in history as one of the least popular Windows versions, ever.

As successor to the popular Windows XP, Vista was presented as a new revolutionary OS for the home user, with a completely new management and appearance. As it turned out, Vista was a bit .. well let's call it 'heavy' for the average PC,' as it had hefty system requirements. The lack of support from hardware and peripherals such as printers and video cards, was a significant problem as well. It however set the groundwork for what was to become Windows 7.

As the story goes, it was an expensive ordeal for Microsoft. The development of Vista (started in 2001) and Microsoft had to their own admission $6 billion in cost. Fortunately for Microsoft, Windows 7 was a great success. Perhaps that was Windows Vista done right.



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intellimoo
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#5419032 Posted on: 04/11/2017 07:18 PM
20 years?

RTM 2006 :) / GA 2007

lmao too. Maybe it felt like 20 waiting from xp to vista. And then the major letdown... ha

Anarion
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#5419033 Posted on: 04/11/2017 07:19 PM
Probably the most important Windows release, tech wise, since NT.

****. I misread. Aye, and it came out too early even though it was delayed numerous times.

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#5419034 Posted on: 04/11/2017 07:19 PM
Terrible hardware support in its early weeks, massive memory hogging/cacheing and the first appearance of UAC. Dual booting XP was necessary for me. Took me about 6 months before using Vista predominantly over XP.

Unless you had a CPU with HT, why exactly didn't you just stick with XP and then upgrade to 7 when that came out? There were easily accessible patches to run DX10 games in XP. I'm not aware of anything else at the time that was better about Vista that couldn't be accounted for.

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#5419046 Posted on: 04/11/2017 07:40 PM
I used Vista Ultimate for quite awhile and liked it. I don't remember having any major issues with it. I loved the Windows Vista "orb" live wall paper and the side bar gadgets were cool.

People compare it to Me and that was a true disaster!

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#5419048 Posted on: 04/11/2017 07:46 PM
I never had Vista on my own PCs. I've a friend who's still running a Vista machine, but I reckon she's getting a new PC this summer.

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