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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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#5419002 Posted on: 04/11/2017 06:01 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.
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.
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#5419003 Posted on: 04/11/2017 06:01 PM
20 years?
RTM 2006
/ GA 2007
20 years?
RTM 2006
/ GA 2007
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#5419007 Posted on: 04/11/2017 06:18 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.
To my understanding, the support is more in terms of security patches; that's about it. I figure most of those patches are trickled down from newer OSes. MS likely predicted demand for Vista was going to last longer than it did, in the same way that happened with XP. They have the money to keep up with it, so I wouldn't say it's really hurting anybody. Think about it - there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use Vista over either XP or Windows 7 (depending what your objective and hardware is). These are not people who have any influence on the PC market.
As for Vista being "actually good", no, it wasn't. As PrMinisterGR put it, Vista was a very important release, but it was never a good OS. It was an adequate and very usable OS by the time Windows 7 was released, at which point you might as well have bought 7 if you didn't already own Vista.
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.
To my understanding, the support is more in terms of security patches; that's about it. I figure most of those patches are trickled down from newer OSes. MS likely predicted demand for Vista was going to last longer than it did, in the same way that happened with XP. They have the money to keep up with it, so I wouldn't say it's really hurting anybody. Think about it - there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use Vista over either XP or Windows 7 (depending what your objective and hardware is). These are not people who have any influence on the PC market.
As for Vista being "actually good", no, it wasn't. As PrMinisterGR put it, Vista was a very important release, but it was never a good OS. It was an adequate and very usable OS by the time Windows 7 was released, at which point you might as well have bought 7 if you didn't already own Vista.
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#5419008 Posted on: 04/11/2017 06:19 PM
I still have 6 Vista systems, running it since release day. I really like it over the newer versions.
I still have 6 Vista systems, running it since release day. I really like it over the newer versions.
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Probably the most important Windows release, tech wise, since NT.