Tuesday, March 14th 2017
Microsoft Ending Vista Support April 11th, Says Few Older Computers Ready for 10
Windows Vista, an OS that faced large amounts of criticism in life, is finally being laid down to die. Whether the criticism was fair, whether it was a victim of its own faults or the faults of simply being too ahead of its time (a question that is still being hotly debated to this day), it matters not now: it's done. On April 11th, Microsoft is ending Windows Vista support.
If you still happen to be using the OS, you may want to consider upgrading. Running an older, unsupported OS is not recommended for general security reasons. The latest bugfixes and exploit patches will simply no longer be issued, and Microsoft will have nothing to do with the OS from this point forward.
In its farewell to Vista, Microsoft makes the obvious upgrade pathway clear: Windows 10. It then goes on to make the fairly bold claim that "Very few older computers are able to run Windows 10." Factually, this depends a lot on what you call "old" and perhaps even, what you consider "running." It may be true that some machines bought in the Vista Era may be sub-optimal for Windows 10, but not all, and most of them can probably run still "run it." As an example; this news writer is currently writing from a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo Panasonic CF-52 Toughbook with Intel Integrated Graphics and it runs Windows 10 fine. Actually, if you have a DirectX 9 capable CPU and around a gig or two of ram then there really aren't many machines in that class that can't run Windows 10. Obviously the more you put in, the more you get, but that is nothing new.
If this were an editorial, I would theorize that this is Microsoft attempting to push users into upgrading their hardware to a new prebuilt computer for their own benefit. But as this is not an editorial, I will leave that claim to you, the reader.
This post is simply a tech-funeral for Vista. The comments be what they may, Vista will soon be EOL'd. Do you have any fond memories of Vista, or absolutely hated moments you'd like to share? Do you think Microsoft is up to no good pushing PC upgrades, or did a weasel-word news editor just put that thought in your head? We'd love to hear all your Vista related thoughts, below.
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If you still happen to be using the OS, you may want to consider upgrading. Running an older, unsupported OS is not recommended for general security reasons. The latest bugfixes and exploit patches will simply no longer be issued, and Microsoft will have nothing to do with the OS from this point forward.
If this were an editorial, I would theorize that this is Microsoft attempting to push users into upgrading their hardware to a new prebuilt computer for their own benefit. But as this is not an editorial, I will leave that claim to you, the reader.
This post is simply a tech-funeral for Vista. The comments be what they may, Vista will soon be EOL'd. Do you have any fond memories of Vista, or absolutely hated moments you'd like to share? Do you think Microsoft is up to no good pushing PC upgrades, or did a weasel-word news editor just put that thought in your head? We'd love to hear all your Vista related thoughts, below.
55 Comments on Microsoft Ending Vista Support April 11th, Says Few Older Computers Ready for 10
I never understood why people hate Vista so much. It ran perfectly on my old build of Q6600 with 8GB of RAM, way better than XP.
I also remember the old generic AHCI driver crashing constantly on my old ABIT motherboard with it's strange SATA setup... :laugh:I was kinda partial to it too, actually. I miss the glass effect even though it probably didn't help my early GPU woes any.
I still remember the first time I saw Windows 8 on a PC in BestBuy. I felt MS fired all their talents who worked on Vista and hired a bunch of degenerates to make Windows 8.
XP was like a hybrid between 9x kernel model (I can do anything I'm the device driver) and Vistas more sensible model (Why do you need this? I don't think so, device driver).
There's a reason XP and Vista both broke a lot more drivers than say, Vista to 7 or consequent OS upgrades.]
This thread is some kind of nostalgia-fest, heh.
Vista has been fine since SP1. Windows 7 and Windows 10 are still better. Windows 10 especially because of the fast booting.
Only used it for a year then jumped ship to W7, I still have the discs here, including a W7 upgrade disc that I wouldn't recommend as that was a nightmare and a clean install was much easier.
technically, minimum requirements for windowses haven't changed since vista.
vista was slow and a resource hog without a doubt compared to windows 10..
trog