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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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#5419081 Posted on: 04/11/2017 08:32 PM
Awful windows, until after SP1 and two performance patches, vista became GREAT, but was irrelevant as windows 7 was around, and the hate towards vista was too strong.
Awful windows, until after SP1 and two performance patches, vista became GREAT, but was irrelevant as windows 7 was around, and the hate towards vista was too strong.
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#5419085 Posted on: 04/11/2017 08:35 PM
It can be safely assumed most of us are in our 20s or later. That's a pretty large age group.
The next most distinct age group would be discussing Windows 2000 (or ME), as those were the next most popular Windows OSes that people actually migrated from once something better came around. XP retained it's popularity for long enough that many teens would know what it is.
Y'all know we all just gave away really how old we are.
It can be safely assumed most of us are in our 20s or later. That's a pretty large age group.
The next most distinct age group would be discussing Windows 2000 (or ME), as those were the next most popular Windows OSes that people actually migrated from once something better came around. XP retained it's popularity for long enough that many teens would know what it is.
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#5419097 Posted on: 04/11/2017 08:47 PM
And worst one ever at same time.
It was step forward in terms of software technologies. But edition wise Vista was crappiest release of OS. Every edition had very different control panel, lower editions had crucial features missing.
Lowest edition (can't remember name) did not even have access to NTFS permission settings. I had to hack in libraries from higher edition to fix cousin's HDD after she reinstalled OS.
Before Vista and after Vista I could navigate almost anyone via phone to solution, but navigating people to anything in Vista...
And then there was performance. Some things were better than XP, some were worse. But second beta of Win 7 came... I 1st tested 32bit version and it was miles better on system with 4GB of ram. Then friend with exactly same HW tested 64bit version and we found that it is even better.
Windows 7 left Vista in dust in every aspect. And I never saw single reason to stay on Vista instead of moving to W7.
Lol, I was using W 3.1 on PC. And installed it 3 times...
But my 1st OS was "Basic v3.5" and 2nd was "Basic v2.0". And I used plotbasic, supergraphics, Simon's assembler, ...
Probably the most important Windows release, tech wise, since NT.
And worst one ever at same time.
It was step forward in terms of software technologies. But edition wise Vista was crappiest release of OS. Every edition had very different control panel, lower editions had crucial features missing.
Lowest edition (can't remember name) did not even have access to NTFS permission settings. I had to hack in libraries from higher edition to fix cousin's HDD after she reinstalled OS.
Before Vista and after Vista I could navigate almost anyone via phone to solution, but navigating people to anything in Vista...
And then there was performance. Some things were better than XP, some were worse. But second beta of Win 7 came... I 1st tested 32bit version and it was miles better on system with 4GB of ram. Then friend with exactly same HW tested 64bit version and we found that it is even better.
Windows 7 left Vista in dust in every aspect. And I never saw single reason to stay on Vista instead of moving to W7.
Y'all know we all just gave away really how old we are.
Lol, I was using W 3.1 on PC. And installed it 3 times...
But my 1st OS was "Basic v3.5" and 2nd was "Basic v2.0". And I used plotbasic, supergraphics, Simon's assembler, ...
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#5419107 Posted on: 04/11/2017 09:14 PM
Seriously MS needs to move to less lengthy support to the benefit of all. Just my opinion.
Yeah Longhorn/Vista was actually good...a bit ahead of its time.
if i remember right longhorn fork in 2: the future 7 in dev and vista in a hurry because the new iPear's OS make the old (but good) XP look so vintage.
and that's was the problem.
Seriously MS needs to move to less lengthy support to the benefit of all. Just my opinion.
Yeah Longhorn/Vista was actually good...a bit ahead of its time.
if i remember right longhorn fork in 2: the future 7 in dev and vista in a hurry because the new iPear's OS make the old (but good) XP look so vintage.
and that's was the problem.
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Y'all know we all just gave away really how old we are.