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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.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday March 20 2017, @10:48PM (2 children)
I must have llucked out. I've only every had pronlem with one computer aout of 18 so far. It was an RTLink wireless crd that I neede to manually rebuild a driver for. Still worked, but very inconvenient, especially for a newb. In general, a better hardware support record than I've had with Windows, and this is with mostly *laptops*.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:02AM (1 child)
Ubuntu, since roughly 12.04, has been a good experience for most things. Still a tiny bit wonky on the sound, medium wonky on the OpenGL - but improving. All in all, starting to surpass Windows in terms of ease of installation and use, and Debian package management beats the hell out of installing software for Windows.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @05:03AM
You hit a sore point with me. I don't have a lot of experience with Debian, but my long experience with Fedora/Redhat/CentOS makes me scream with respect to package management.
Biggest issue is when I need a newer version of a program than is supported in the repositories. Just tonight I needed "sar" 10.1.5 on a Redhat 6 box where the latest version in the repo is 9.x.x. I got lucky and was able to build out from source, but many times that is not even an option because of library dependencies.
With windows I can almost always install the latest software without doing a full OS upgrade. I run Fedora 20 on a home box and lots of newer versions of packages can no longer be installed. Upgrading to Fedora 25 will take at least a weekend and probably longer. Meh to Linux package management.