Vista mainstream support ending this week...

[Chiefcrowe]

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=Vista

 

[nenforcer]

Fortunately they lengthened the extended support by another 5 years until 2017

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...support_lifespan_for_consumer_Windows_7_Vista

For those still unfortunate enough to be still using that OS.

 

[nemesismk2]

I do understand why people who had windows xp didn't get windows vista but I don't understand why someone with windows vista didn't upgrade to windows 7?

 

[F1shF4t]

Fortunately they lengthened the extended support by another 5 years until 2017

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...support_lifespan_for_consumer_Windows_7_Vista

For those still unfortunate enough to be still using that OS.

Good to know. I'm still using vista for my cruncher rig.

As far as the OS is concerned i don't rate win 7 much higher. After SP1 and when the hardware manufacturers got their act together with drivers vista was great.

 

[Kathi201]

I ams till using XP this is best for me....and i will never change

 

[F1shF4t]

I ams till using XP this is best for me....and i will never change

Good for you. Don't let anyone stop you using an obsolete and insecure OS. Now how is this of any relevance to this thread?

 

[lxskllr]

I do understand why people who had windows xp didn't get windows vista but I don't understand why someone with windows vista didn't upgrade to windows 7?

Vista's my favorite Windows. I upgraded that to Debian :^D If I were to stick with Windows, I'd hold on to Vista the way others do to XP; well, mostly anyway. Once something had valuable new features I'd switch. It doesn't look like Win8, but maybe Win9 will.

I still have Vista on a partition, and I'm looking forward to running it for Bioshock3. I'll keep it until it doesn't work for games anymore. I also have a Win7 iso, but I suspect that when games stop working on Vista, they'll also stop working on Win7, and I'll have to figure out what I'm going to do.

 

[ViRGE]

I do understand why people who had windows xp didn't get windows vista but I don't understand why someone with windows vista didn't upgrade to windows 7?

XP to Vista was a much bigger upgrade than Vista to 7. It's Vista that introduced Aero, the new graphics stack, the new audio stack, the new networking stack, etc. Win7 in comparison reigned in on Vista's memory usage and added some new features (WDDM 1.1, TRIM, etc), but as an upgrade to existing Vista machines it didn't make a ton of sense so long as the machine was already powerful enough to shrug off Vista's memory demands.

 

[Chiropteran]

I do understand why people who had windows xp didn't get windows vista but I don't understand why someone with windows vista didn't upgrade to windows 7?

Really there is nothing wrong with Vista as it stood when Windows 7 was released.

The problems with Vista that gave it the bad rep were mostly the fault of hardware drivers, written by nvidia or ATI, and some OS flaws which were corrected in SP1.

7 has a little more polish and will be supported longer (I think?), but I don't see why anyone would waste the money to upgrade a good machine running Vista to 7.

 

[zokudu]

I do understand why people who had windows xp didn't get windows vista but I don't understand why someone with windows vista didn't upgrade to windows 7?

As said above Vista had 3 major issues. It used a large amount of memory. OEM's put it on machines they shouldn't have and it ran like crap so people blamed microsoft. It was the first mainstream 64 bit OS and even a lot of 32 bit driver needed to be completely rewritten. Driver programmers dropped the ball just as much as microsoft did.

Vista had a perception problem not an actual problem even more so after SP1.