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posted by martyb on Monday March 20 2017, @01:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the wide-open-spaces-closed-shut dept.

One of Microsoft's most hated operating systems (Windows ME is difficult to beat on that front) is destined to die in less than a month.

Windows Vista, launched to a less-than-stellar reception on January 30, 2007, saw most of its support stopped back in 2012. On April 11 this year the hammer finally falls. Microsoft warned Vista users that their systems could be compromised by an attacker in the future, especially as Security Essentials support has also now ended for the operating system.

"Windows Vista customers will no longer receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates from Microsoft," Redmond said.

"Microsoft has provided support for Windows Vista for the past 10 years, but the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources towards more recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver great new experiences."

My heart does ache for our brethren, the poor, huddled Windows masses.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @03:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @03:43AM (#481349)

    Vista wasn't bad after the second Service Pack.

    I first tried it in early 2006 and it made my laptop slow to a crawl. Completely unusable, even for simple tasks like file copies. By 2010, Vista had improved to be a somewhat decent Operating System, at least as stable as Windows 7.

    I used Vista until I got a free (legit) copy of 7 back in 2013. Looking back, it's easy to see that 7 was the final product and Vista was just released to get out of development hell.

    I remember all the hype for Longhorn, which ended up being Vista. New Aero effects, new security subsystem, improved stability, new BeOS-style WinFS filesystem. I think Microsoft really tried to do too much and just shipped what they had after five years to get _something_ out the door. It was a mess at first, and I know a lot of people who wouldn't otherwise have tried, switched to Ubuntu for a bit.

    What Vista really showed was how disorganized and bureaucratic Microsoft had become. Nothing they've done in the past fifteen years has made me think otherwise, or made me at least think, "Microsoft might actually be recovering." 7 was a decent product, but not really exciting when framed as what Vista was supposed to be. MSFT can not innovate, and they can barely even respond to market trends. Microsoft is directionless and only riding on their legacy of not fucking up Office and Active Directory too terribly. That, and they're in everybody's 401k portfolio over the age of 40. Give those guys another two decades to retire, and they will ride off into the sunset taking Microsoft with them.

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