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
Whether it was ahead of time or not, Vista was the wrong product at the wrong time.
The end result was that when Vista launched with the exact same launch issue that XP/9x/3.11 had (running like **** on the minimum spec hardware) the neanderthals raged and threw their toys out of the pram. By contrast Windows 7 was essentially the same core OS with a shinier GUI but it got let off easy because it was now three years later and the average PC spec had increased.
Granted, there are different reasons (OS/2 was mostly mismarketing whereas Vista had many other problems), but the "wrong product for the wrong time" thing still applies.
In terms of RAM usage, Vista isn't bad compared to 7/8.1/10. The main issue was that when Vista was initially released, most mainstream PCs only had 2GB of RAM which was simply not sufficient 7/8.1/10 were born in an era where 8GB (or even 16GB) RAM had become the norm.
Nah... just kidding
The base of Vista was solid (after all, 7 was nothing but Vista+polish), but trying to shove everything down customer's throats was "a bit" too much.
for example i have put windows ten on some ten year old hardware.. it works fine and improves the performance.. vista on the on the hand needed high end hardware of the time to work and even then it wasnt that quick..
windows seven put the emphasis back on performance.. MS learned a valuable lesson..
trog
Vista was very resource-intensive for its time. It loved to have lots of memory especially. Apparently, businesses with legacy programs didn't have much luck either. So basically, the problems primarily stemmed from a new generation of OS technology mixing with hardware that was designed for previous generational requirements. Many people never connected those dots.
I hazard that any computer that can run Vista can handle Win10 within reasonable expectations.
Oh yeah and I agree Vista did run a lot better after SP1.
are you saying witcher or doom is lazy? cuz they arent...