The Story Behind Windows Vista
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- We're all familiar with Windows Vista, and it's common knowledge that reception for it wasn't very positive, but how could an OS that had years of work behind it and plenty of new ideas fail?
I remember my dad upgrading to Vista one morning without telling anyone.
I lost my shit when I saw it because it looked so good, everything was shiny and round. For someone who was used to Win 95 and XP, this blew my mind!
It even had majong and card games with voices in it!
travos k Vista looked cool though this came at the cost of running slow on lower end hardware. Win7 struck a better balance and was improved under the hood so it could run better on low end computer without looking out of style they Windows XP was looking by then, Imo.
Did you try solitaire? If you did then at that moment you should have realized how bad it was.
I loved the 3d chess it came with :)
Vista had chess but it wasn't 3d mostly Windows 7 has 3d chess the good one
@@EuropeanMapper nah it definitely had it. I remember it well
Vista was beautiful.
it could be bad, but it was a good looking thing.
beautifoul desing
Vista has that side widget that was really cool. Also most OEMs made a fresh partition if one wanted to redo a clean install without those recovery disk that people usually misplace.
Indeed, for me it's still the best looking Windows version ever released, I never liked how they made the OS look flatter and flatter with each release, Windows 10 looks boring next to Vista, but gotta admit it runs a million times better.
At least Vista is not gay, like the 8
I'm running Linux with the KDE user interface (Kubuntu) and I make it look just like Windows Vista right down to the Widgets down the side. Glass see through toolbars and title bars and everything. It's gorgeous! Vista was the absolute best looking version of Windows hands down!
"Paint and solitaire"
F to pay respects.
F
Microsoft Solitaire collection and paint are pre installed on windows 10 tho
@@faristurjman2134 paint is now Paint 3D
@@orhankaplan uhh i still have paint
@@micefort I didn't have it when I installed Windows 10 (Build 2004)
I actually liked Vista, it had a refreshing look after using xp for years. And Windows 7 is the last good Windows. :(
No it wasnt.
True
I made an upgrade from Windows 7 and downgraded a few weeks later. Vista and 7 are the best!
Don't be sad it's not a bad thing to move on c:
I think Windows 10 is the best.
People here: *talks how good vista is*
People elsewhere: *rants how bad it is*
people elsewhere never used it.
@@wordart_guian Or only used sp1
@@sosopwsi829Jjw9 more like sp0
@@wordart_guian yeah vista wasn't the best until sp2
@@sosopwsi829Jjw9 I used it since 2008 (so sp1) and it was already really good then
I used Vista and it was fine. What bugged me was how people were convinced that the sidebar was stuck to the right but you could remove the apps and have them on the desktop where you want. That was fixed in Windows 7 when the side bar was eliminated but the apps remained.
There's one important point totally omitted from this video: The driver architecture changes. Windows drivers were originally designed to handle simple peripherals that did simple tasks (mice, keyboards, cameras, printers, etc). Next gen peripherals required next gen hardware driver architecture - which we still use today, but obviously, that broke compatibility with many existing hardware items and those manufacturers didn't have drivers ready when Vista came out.
This.
you are right, that the driver model changed in Vista, but you are wrong that "windows drivers were originally designed to handle simple peripherals". WDM existed before Vista, NT had its DM too both preivious models' drivers could manage everything what existed, not only "mice, keyboards and printers". SCSI, IDE, PCI, USB, ethernet, display drivers, any peripherals.
Despite the prior existence of NT-based "DM" drivers, there was still plenty of consumer grade hardware that was left hanging out to dry. The manufacturers' initial attempts at driver support, overall, were quite shoddy. The OS, itself, was good but its launch was pretty terrible.
The new driver model in Vista was indeed one of the big issues that caused problems for users of Vista. For users upgrading from Windows XP and trying to use older hardware that worked fine with XP, they ran into buggy driver issues if the found updated drivers at all. Even new drivers for new peripherals could be buggy at first as the manufacturers learned the new driver model. The peripheral manufacturers just didn’t do a good job at first of providing solid drivers for Vista at first. I’ve heard the same complaint about Windows ME though there is some debate about this. Likely Windows Me suffered from being a stopgap OS until Windows XP was ready and thus suffered from rushed development and lack of sufficient attention, with resources devoted to Win2000 and later XP (based on Win2000 in certain respects)
windows 95 keyboards work on my vista pc
Probably the biggest reason "Vista sucks" is because manufacturers were selling it on PCs optimized for XP, not accounting for Vista's higher reqs. By the time 7 rolled around, its requirements were about standard.
Exactly, and have barely changed since. Also driver support for Vista was very slow because XP had been around for far too long, leading to complacency.
I'm so sad people thought vista was bad. I grew up with it, and so I have a bias for it xD
same. I used it since I was young and it broke down 10 months ago... My dad didn't fix it, instead he bought windows 10 and I was kinda sad
Same bro
Vista was a big difference from old windows and thus people didn't like it
Same here, used Vista and 7, My childhood!
@@Qingep bro same Vista is always op
So basically Vista was the beautiful-blonde-next-door of the OS world
videoloops1 yep 😂
But is fucking coooooooool.
I remember a lot cool things like: create weird themes (I bought my first pc when I was 11 years old) like ‘all yellow with papyrus font with pink color’...it was weird..absolutely weird.
But cool.
I ever hated, for my taste, widget but I used blocknotes as stick-notes.
I don’t like Word so I ever used/using Wordpad except now that I prefer OneNote but I still prefer it.
I never liked Microsoft Explorer nor Chrome so I used there Opera and I’m using Opera(8, 10 doesn’t go).
more beautiful than macos x that got job jealousy about new art work BILL shown to him.....so piss for jobs ...while linux compiz users start to wonder
Why she gotta be blonde 😂
@@vinx3407 because it was slow :p
She's high-maintenance too :)
I actually liked Windows Vista. In terms of aesthetics it was the best one and the most "futuristic-looking" OS. I hope that design returns, instead of this current minimalist-baby themed futurism we're seeing today. The color scheme was great and the sounds were great and it basically functioned like a Windows computer.
Also it did not have any of the nefarious telemetry that 10 got.
What nefarious telemetry? Developers need to know how their product is actually being used or they won't be able to make useful improvements.
Shawn Elliott I wonder how designers of manage to improve their products without this "essential feature"!
Shawn Elliott well microsoft never actually came with such a good update for windows 10. Sure there were updates that fixed alot of bugs and stuff windows 10 still has so many problems.
I don't care what anybody says - any version of Windows was better than the latest bloated crap that is Windows 10
I installed Vista a year after release. By then, most programs had been updated and the worst bugs ironed out, so things generally worked fine. At least Vista had a great IPv6 stack at the time, the best one available. It took many years before MacOS and Linux caught up with it. The reason people had much less problems with Win7 is probably because most software didn't really have to change and Win7 benefited from a lot of work that went into Vista.
Vista was better than its reputation, it just demanded too much hardware for its time. I think thats why it turned out so shitty. When the first netbooks came out they put XP onto them because they were too weak to run Vista. And doing so under 1 GB of RAM is hell.
@@voyagerdeepspaceexploratio5023 Yes, totally agree that allowing vendors to sell computers with Vista with only 1GB of RAM was a huge mistake. It needs at least 2GB.
Yeah, honestky vista wasn't so bad, hell, i feel like 7 is just vista with a few smoothed edges, but i feel like the main problem was that most common computers at te time were not prepared, hell, i. Remember when XP came out it suffered from the same problem, and yet nowdays is praised as one of the best windows out there, is just that with vista the threshold was bigger and by the time the computers stepped up to an acceptable level 7 came out. And the difference in requirements between the two was minimal, so people skipped directly to the new system, leaving vista with its original bad reputation
Dump Sockpuppet vista = beta Windows 7
Erick Rosa yea
Windows 7 = Vista SE
I ALWAYS had problems with XP UNTIL the moment they stopped supporting it. Then for the first time ever, it ran as smooth as silk. But I switched to Linux and never looked back.
I had amazing experiences with Vista. I used it from start to EOL with no problems aside from problems that plague literally every version of Windows ever.
Wait.... Windows 8.1 good and Windows 10 bad?
Yes, but 8.1 was bad, too.
@@lukewt1017did you actually use windows 8.1?
@@itsalwaysoniontime Yes, it was a horrible experience.
@@lukewt1017 fair enough
Boy how the tides have turned for Windows 10 now that Windows 11 is out
Vista wasn't bad if you had a good machine. The manufacturers selling trash Atom processors with Vista installed, of course would run like trash. Vista was the beginning of the "signed drivers" being mandatory which overall was a big deal and was seriously needed. I will admit, the driver issue was a problem initially, but worked out in the end.
Signed drivers are a waste of time, hints the fact the more secure OS's don't even bother; it takes the same user privileges to install a singed driver as it does to destroy the system in other ways.
Most of Microsoft's security updates are just security theater with the actual security upgrades coming from better browsers and email scans.
Signed drivers are not a waste of time. You ever install RAID drivers that aren't signed? Do you really want (or trust) those types of drivers? Trust me, you want drivers to be signed and certified by MS to make sure they work with your system. Of course I'm talking about enterprise level hardware. But since Vista and signed drivers, blue screens have disappeared for the most part due to crap drivers.
^ This.
I once had a laptop designed for Vista and it worked fine with almost no problems
I had an old EeePC which I remember playing GTA San Andreas on. It was far from powerful but everything ran great. Not sure why lots of other people has so many issues. I had none :/
1995Supra Black 2 out of 3 machines I've used it on say otherwise. My old man's HP entertainment notebook came with Vista and was nothing but trouble from day one. Change to 7 ultimate boom stable, fast and no desire to throw it at a wall. And he'll no 95 was a nightmare. Never had any major problems with 98 first or second editions. Miserable edition I have no first hand experience with, but we've all heard about it. As for 8 and 8.1 you couldn't pay me to use them.
Sidebar also hated win 2000s guts.
I have always wondered why people hated Vista so much.
Yes it was a bit buggy, the uac popped up really often and drivers were limited (but you need to blame manufacturers for that).
I have a pc with Vista and it still runs like a dream.
Works great and still does everything as well as it did when it was brand new.
Also i love the look and feel of Vista, 7 and 10 do not feel as good to use as Vista.
mid 2000’s kids grew up on vista and 7, we loved it
Especially if You grew up on moviemaker and purble place :-)
Used Windows Vista Home Basic since the first week of release for over 6 years and not a single problem.
So far the best Windows Version.
You're 100% correct:D
Windows 7:NANI
Ah XP and Vista. Good time, goooood times.
My aunt had windows xp, my dad has windows vista. I had good childhood memories with them.
But both of them broke down and can never be fixed again..
When i was 5 i would mess around on my grandma's vista computer. Ah those were the good old days
Man Vista... it was like wrong password but my computer didn't have a password.
Happy Anniversary, Windows Vista.
8 November 2017.
Cool, my birthday's on November 8th
Faris Amri Aznor Suandi it ded
Windows Vista, for me, was fine. It just has a lot of compatibility issues and isn't optimized very well for applications. One thing I think they should have kept was the Longhorn login and shut down jingles. They are beautiful to listen to.
Vista at release was shit, and even I can agree with that even though Vista is by far my favorite release. Add service pack 2 and you got a pretty stable operating system, although you'd be hard pressed to find updates since they stopped supporting it. It was the stepping stone for many newer operating systems like 7, which went on to be one of the most successful OS's Microsoft produced. If you want to run Vista properly, a decent dual-core CPU is necessary with a small graphics chip (at least GMA) and a good amount of RAM (at least 2 GB) and it will do fine. These heavy requirements pushed computer manufacturers to install better components and push the industry forward, IMO. I was able to run Vista (with no SP mind you) on an Intel Pentium 4 and 4 GB of RAM (a Dell Dimension 4700), and you know how bad those old Pentium 4's are now what with how shitty NetBurst was...
Raved on a bit too much, don't ya think lol
z609 No its cool. I do the same thing sometimes! Very informative. XD
I just wish Windows would stop trying to 'be' the internet. I need the time & date in the bottom corner- all other 'live updates' I can get from my chosen web browser, thank you very much...
True, myself too.
I love Vista and still run it on a workstation. The problem was when it shipped most hardware was underpowered for it, and that's Microsofts fault. They should have had a slim version that would run on lower specs. The hardware caught up quick but the initial reception is what's remembered.
Remember like it was yesterday : when Vista had just released, EVERYBODY was calling it THE BEST OS ever released. It took 3 years for people to change their mind
Why hate vista i loved it and not to menton without vista we wouldnt have win 7
Crashes your computer a lot. At least for my old computer
In my opinion vista looks are really cool.
RandomName Last Name it doesn’t suck
the world just wasn't ready for vista
@@Dr-Random Yeah because Vista is your bf lol
"improved solitaire"? I remember it crushing my vista to BSOD
“Windows Vista Can’t Even Play Solitaire”
@@SupaCLUCK taskbar free very nice
@@SupaCLUCK it cans, try it by _yourself_
@@SupaCLUCK "every pre-SP2 Vista user"
Lol, Vinesauce Joel had the same issue on his Windows Vista destruction stream
I've had less frustrations with my old vista dell laptop, then I have with windows 10. I never felt the need to update it to win 7. Windows 10 brings bloat to a far new level.
Use windows10 debloater
Windows 10 is great, at least i like it
@@Tactical_Tailgater its great if you have a modern pc, if a mechanical hard drive, slow dual core cpu, 4 gb ram, youre out of luck, it's gonna be far worse than 8.1 or 7...
@@av28379 Oh, now I get it
@@av28379 its slow on my 8 Core Xeon, 32GB RAM, GTX 980 and 480GB SSD.
Vista made a tons of invisible improvement to NT kernel. It is one of most important Windows update. The major problem was low performance on low end machine. Windows 7 eventually finished the effort and became the best Windows OS. Afterwards, Windows took wrong path. Windows 10 is pure garbage.
If you want a superficial answer, just Google how many incidents in past a couple years caused by Windows 10 update. If you want a much deeper answer, you need to understand the underlying technology called WinRT used by Windows 10 App framework and how it is integrated with traditional desktop. WinRT is worst mistake of Window Architect, inefficient, terrible usability and overly complicated. Android copied many technology from Windows (most people don't know about this) but did a better job to make those things more modern.
Eh Vista wasn’t that bad
It was pretty slow and had many unneccesary features, and compared to Windows 7 (which was miles better) it's definitely shite.
True, but I only realized how bad it was when I upgraded the laptop that I had at the time to Windows 7. It's really what Vista should have been.
I dont know but it's pretty slow, i mean it's windows xp with w7-like interface but with more errors
Not add bad as Windows ME.
I agree!
"Windows 8.1 good"
"Windows 10 bad"
I can close the video.
To me that is exactly how I think of Windows today. Windows 8.1 is at least customizable and can be made to look like Windows 7 with centered titlebar text, as well as having Metro be avoided. WinPadOS 10's metro cannot be avoided, and you can _only_ dial it down. There is also spyware and adware built-in, which is awful. Windows 8.1, Vista and even ME is better than that piece of Tablet UI crap.
I said windows vista is good
Like if you love windows vista
I agree
PenguinMaster Stupid likebeggar but don’t drink kerosene because you’re not that stupid
Windows Vista was the first version of Windows I got, I loved that version
Windows vista was a great improvement do not hate on it it helped windows 7 the best is and windows 8 1 and 2 and 3
And it helped windows 8 transparency and windows 10 transparency.
vista was great! Its like the not 90's kid that has almost the same tastes but disrespected anyway.
the 00s kid.
I'm a 2001 and Vista was my childhood. (I kinda remember XP but was unfairly biased against it because it was the school OS and schools have group policies.)
Is it just me or is Windows Vista actually more usable than Windows 10? Windows Vista rulez!
I built a new PC and installed vista 64bit because it was new out - had no issues or problems, all the time I had it - it was no where as bad as people think it was - that was mainly down to people running it on anemic and under-powered laptops, not help by Intel lying about the specks that could run the new OS! - one thing they could of got better even after SP1 was file transfer/copping
qa- My 10 yr old pc had well over the minimum requirements wasnt much into downloading and everything was running like broken as shit. get it togther- I build my own systems too.
Adam Taj Hassam Had a Duel Core 1.87Ghz Laptop with 2Gb Ram in 2007 with Windows Vista and it ran perfectly fine. Maybe your computer was a piece of shit.
Thomas Armour same
If you had less than 2GB RAM, which most people had at the time, Vista ran like shit. This also meant that the 32-bit version was rather superfluous.
File transfer and copying is still slow on Windows I think. As I understand it's a kernel design flaw so not something they can fix very easily.
Vista was my favourite. I never experienced anything like it crashing on me or my computer to nor be able to run it. And it had many cool things. I loved the side bar and the new games (I spent so many hours playing InkBall.) and I absolutely loved the new design.
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Zayde Lekic Well... I did recognise the writing was greek. That's a good starting point, don't you agree?
I had no problem with Vista. In fact it's the most beloved version of Windows for me. I miss it.
Windows 8.1 Good? What are you on?
And how is windows 10 bad
Windows 8.1 is pretty good but Windows 10 is better
I installed vista, I have no problems with it.
Same lol
@@haxxedout8354 That was on my old laptop from when I was a toddler
@@daniidelrey oh
I've been using Vista for last 8 years, works great. I mostly use chrome and google, but this OS works good and doesn't have all the extra stuff on Windows 10. Just read some comments after posting, I'm running it with 4GBs of Ram and a Dell Inspiron. Seems like everything works smooth together. I did buy a new computer 8 months ago with Windows 10, but returned it because I was spending time trying to get the same ease of Vista. Couldn't really get the start menu/button to really feel the same. I feel on W10 they tru to push other MS programs/games/apps on me, and I just want a clean experience. I do use apps, but all under chrome and it works smooth. I did try Cortana, but since I just use chrome, it works smooth with all my apps and syncs on my android phone very intuitively. Now I've been using android more as an OS system, but MS is smoother in some areas. Now smartphones are powerful enough to run about all normal programs ( not a gamer), and you can cast it to a monitor and use BT keyboard and mouse. Please I like my old MS office. I did try 365 but seemed like it took longer, maybe the whole cloud system. My system works good, but I know Vista is dated, and I would like to upgrade. I wish Android has a smooth OS that would run MS. I kind of thought maybe a chrome book, but looks a little too light for what I really need for business. If anyone has a good suggestion, please let me know.
Try ro use Opera it has support for Win Vista and XP
Personally Vista is my favourite version of Windows. It looked really good, especially for the time, I loved the side bar and the abundance of nifty gadgets and features. Plus I never really experienced any bugs, it just worked for me.
I think that Windows 7 is the best version of Windows, but I still prefer Linux.
Its was... before win 8 came out!
+Pangsatabam Henry
lol no, I want to be able to look at a nice UI + have legacy programs/games working.
Like??
Any linux distro is better than any Windows version ever, if you choose the one you need and know your way to configure it to work in what you want it to work.
I would probably use Linux if only people actually ported steam games and other programs to it regularly.
Honestly, I actually quite liked Vista. Even after 7 was released, it took a while before I moved over. I was happy with Vista.
Vista wasn't bad once you had the updates and service packs installed and a decently powerful computer. Though if you had a computer at the time (Like my dad's Compaq with a whopping 1 gig of RAM to run it) it ran like crap no matter what. If they waited another year to release on more powerful computers I imagine the public wouldn't have flamed it.
"1 gig of RAM to run it", i have 4 GB RAM bruh, and Minecraft still sucks a$$ on this Win7 thing.
Windows 10nis actually really good if you replace the start menu and turn off all the spying
It's still Windows, an mess of garbage that is proprietary and has barred systems like certain data collection systems.
Windows is only useful because other people find it as such, even though it has horrid security systems and bad APIs.
OS X isn't much better, it does have slightly better APIs, though.
The point is: Windows 10 is still a pile of garbage even if you return to the old start menu and disable the spying systems that your can disable. OS X is also bad, with even worse proprietary-ness.
Vikrinox they are both basically the same so dont matter
@ender_scythe So everything that is proprietary is garbage? You Linux fanboys need to try harder.
"hey guys i use linux you guys better listen to me nurture my swollen ego over a fucking operating system"
I like Linux, and I recognize that proprietary software is actually pretty good in some cases (photo/video editing, gaming, etc.), but other times, you can get by just fine with free software.
Addendum: I think free "clones" of proprietary games are just meh. I'm fine with engine clones, but not "replacements". For example, Freedoom will never replace the original DOOM.
I had a decent computer and didn't remember Vista being this bad...
Same here.
It was a pretty solid, pretty looking OS, but then again, i was using core based processors and 2gb of ram back then unlike most people running it on Pentium 4s and 512MB of ram.
Me too...about 11 years ago it died 😂
Desmond the same 😂
I had The Sims 3 and it was slow.
Omg, it was my first pc and I still don’t want trash it!!🙂
I had a lowend laptop from Auchan and it wasn't bad.
1:35 insert Steve Job's Longhorn joke.
Say what you want to say.
Back in 2010, I had NO problems with Vista! Not only that but one day they upgraded to windows 7 and I was sad!
I missed those gorgeous and beautiful backgrounds and that satysfying animation that appears right before the Welcome screen!
To sum up, I LOVED vista! Exe files worked perfectly... No slowdowns...
I'm not done yet!
Before we upgraded to Windows 7, there were NO BSoD's!
Not only that, but when we upgraded to windows 7, I encountered at least 3 BSoD's
Don't get me wrong, I love windows 7, in fact, I still use it! I'm even writing this comment on windows 7!
But vista was my childhood. I even knew how to use it when I was 5! I used to play A LOT of flash games!
R.I.P. Vista
"I am the only one that loves this failed OS"
-JimPlayz912
BIG SAME.
I would love if Microsoft released an update on Windows 10 that would allow you to change the aesthetics of your computer to past systems. I would kill for my PC to look like Windows XP or Windows Vista/7 again
I prefer windows 10 over 8.1
windows 10 sucks, it is the worst in my opinion, windows vista was buggy at release, but it received several updates which fixed the issues, and I have a good high end computer running windows vista so its actually fast for me, and I love vista, its my favorite operating system
yayyyyyy!!@!#@!#!@#!@#!@#!@31231312213213122132131
In my experience Vista failed because it looked different. I know, that sounds ridiculous, but hear me out. Most users don't care about all that technical stuff, in fact they're intimidated by it. Anything new to a typical user in this era was very intimidating. They'll be worried that they have to "learn a new OS" and would rather just stick with something familiar, like Windows XP. I was building PCs at the time and I knew people who just wouldn't even consider using Vista simply because they wanted what was familiar, so I put XP on the machines.
Things are different now, people are somewhat more computer literate. PCs then to non-technical people were the magic box they used to get onto MySpace and type things up in Word. Now they carry computers in their pocket and are at least much more accustomed to navigating a user interface. If XP were the dominant Windows version now and they just launched Vista, I don't think they'd have as much as a problem with it today.
And you are probably right. Though Idk I was a child at the time and it took me literal minutes to learn a new OS. Weird how most people can't learn.
I loved the Windows Live program, i loved the Services, expecially Games for Windows Live.
Thanks Vista for giving us this services
Games for Windows Live fucking haunted me, I still get nightmares from it from time to time.
@@myg0t_jsm Yeah, and that shit just Kill GTA 4 and prevented it from Buying from Steam.
Ironically, I'm Installing Longhorn Build 4074 On My Secondary Laptop
Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger were the most beautiful OS imho
Vista was fine after Service Pack 1, like good old XP was too.
Even Windows 8 was pretty good after 8.1 update.
Windows 10 after the Anniversary Update was good. And its going strong after Creators' Update.
Actually Windows 8 was the best even after Win 8.1 Update.. before Win 10 came out.. which some people are calling bad just because they still use the first version of win 10 v1507.. and they didn't upgrade to The November Update, after that The Anniversary Update and after that to the Creators Update! BTW There's another Fall Creators Update coming this month!
I hate the "Windows as a Service" aproach... These updates don't add many features, but they take ages to install and you never know if your computer is really compatible driver-wise. (Yes, MS thinks about dropping support for sandy bridge CPUs, not only some old Pentium laptops)
@therailroad99 And no doubt you complained when you had to pay $200 each time to upgrade. Everything has a life span and Microsoft isn't obligated to actively support your ancient devices forever. In fact, Microsoft has always been extremely generous with support lifecycles
TheRailroad99 MS dropped support for Clover Trail Atom CPUs after Anniversary and after Intel stopped supporting them or producing drivers for them. Blame Intel.
A fresh install of Vista SP2 is on-par with Windows 7 performance wise.
Fully agree
I am not sure i agree, my mother had a dell computer with vista and it worked perfectly for many years until she bought a new pc, I always fixed stuff on her computer pretty fast and at low frustrating level, I liked vista
People pile on vista to be cool. It wasn't the problem its made out to be. I used it at work, and recently installed it fresh on a retired machine for personal workstation use. I've always liked it.
Still think it looked and felt better than 7.
I've never done gaming on it though, and don't plan to either.
Rule number 1, never adopt a newly released OS if you don't need to.
I've used Vista in the past but by then it was two years old, never had any big problems with it to be honest.
I grew up using vista, so it always has a place in my heart
Am I the only one who liked Vista? Mind you, it was before my time of desktop building and software tinkering, but I had a VAIO laptop with it, and I quite enjoyed it .-.
I pretty much liked Vista. It wasn't as bad. I liked the Aero theme and quick search.
No, you're not the only one. Its kinda funny that I ended up with my own copy of it because of an HDD I bought on eBay from a dead laptop (because I needed a cheap backup to transfer files). Of course it crashed when I just booted straight from that HDD without a reinstall but, by some miracle, I was able to recover the OEM key from it. My desktop rig ran quite happily with it for a couple years until I went to Win 7.
I fuckin loved vista until my beast of a desktop got a virus
I'll never forget when they removed Rover the search dog!
i've never used XP but hearing "search dog" with a name "Rover", i googled him and now i'm never gonna forgive the Microsoftians.
Or Merlin the Setup Wizard.
@@MrQuinnzard hahaha oh yeah!
Still, Vista had beautiful graphical design to be more desirable.
I mainly used Vista for several years, and while Aero looks great out of the box, it tends to slow things down to a crawl as the hardware ages. The Geek Squad guys were incredulous that we had been running it for years on 1 GB of RAM.
The other problem was the lack of backwards compatibility. While XP could do a decent job of running games designed for slightly older versions of Windows (98, 2000, etc.), Vista only had maybe a 1-in-3 success rate of smoothly running games designed for XP.
That said, I do still like Vista's versions of 'Mahjong Titans' and 'Paint'.
Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 was the best operating system I ever used
0:03 wait! Windows 8.1 is good and Windows 10 is bad ? WHATTTTTT
too much bloatware
I liked vista. It was easy to operate and was smooth.
You know what else is easy and smooth? Diarrhea.
Actually The sidebar was in vista but worked differently from originally planned. The visible sidebar in the right side of the screen was removed in 7, and the gadgets no longer had a specific place to be. The gadgets were completely removed with windows 8.
Or at least that's what I think happened.
There’s no doubt that Windows 7 was a big improvement over Vista, but I never had any problems with Vista. I knew some people had problems with it and pretty quickly went back to XP, but the only operating system I ever stopped using and went back to an earlier version was when I went back to Windows 98 after trying Windows ME.
I love Vista, it's an underrated gem.
I remembered the time when I was still using a laptop running on Windows XP and started downloading mods and themes to have those transparency effects to look like Vista. This was 2007 and I couldn't afford anything running on Vista at that time. Come 2008, I bought a laptop with Vista Home Basic running on AMD Turion and ATI Graphics, it wasn't all that bad TBH. It was refreshing to see something new to Windows. I dearly miss those times. Haha!
I miss the days when we got new visual styles and lots of new features with each release, something that WinPadOS 10 doesn't have. WinPadOS 10 "feature updates" lack the amount of new features that were with the old lifecycle policy and it just feels boring and all the same, no new styles, no nothing. It may be good for businesses, but even then the old lifecycle policy allowed for 10 years of support, plenty of time for businesses to switch over when they need to.
This will sound incredible but I used Vista from '07 to '17, on a Toshiba satellite laptop, 10 YEARS, heavy use every day. The last year and a half I stopped ALL updates, and had NO anti-virus software for the last year (except Defender), just used half a dozen cleaners and malware scanners every 3 or so days. had NO virus's, though occasional malware/trojans, bsod's once in a while (none that weren't fixed in a day or two...and I'm no techie). I never had any problems with Vista worth mentioning, but I went directly to it from Win95 so never knew XP. Now I'm on Win10 latest version (a few days ago). Meh.
I knew the gentleman that had the responsibility for giving the go ahead to release the home version of Vista. Or I should say, the gentleman who was forced to release the home version. He knew it wasn't ready. The last time I saw him, before he passed away from diabetes a few years later, I was in a meeting room setting up my webcast equipment (nothing to do with Microsoft). He walked in, looked at me, and said, "I don't want to talk about Vista." Enough said. He was a great fellow and we miss him.
Most of the complaints came from a change in how drivers work. A lot of hardware manufacturers screwed up, and Vista kind of got the blame. Eventually, the hardware manufacturers got their drivers up to snuff, but by then Vista already had an undeserved reputation for being buggy and crash-prone.
My aunt has had a windows vista laptop since the time it came out. She recently bought a new laptop, since vista went unsupported April 11, 2017. I asked her if she had any plans for her vista laptop, and she said that I could have it! I don't care if the operating system was unpopular. I still think it would be very cool to own!
I guess Windows Vista isn't that bad. In fact, I had one when my mom bought a new laptop, which is Dell, years ago. Unfortunately, we had Vista for less than a year because there was trouble in its hardware. Had to bring the laptop for service. When it's done, someone upgrade our Vista to Windows 7. That version of 7 was a pirated copy however.
What kind of service would do that? Someone who hates vista? I can't bear this kind of people who thinks they know better what the consumer wants. My aunt got an XP pc in 2009, she had it set up by an IT guy so I guess this guy downgraded it. She's confident she never asked, and it made her life more complicated if anything. Besides, in 2009, Vista was miles above XP, and milimeters under 7.
@@RandomNameLastName811 centimeters and that's my last word.
(in 2009 vista was on SP2, and though the RTM had stability problems, SP1 and esp. SP2 were pretty much flawless.
The concrete difference between vista and 7 would be the superbar, aero peek, shake and snap, the libraries, and native support for mp4/mov formats, all cool features I now take for granted, but none of which justifying a pirated windows over a fine, genuine one. Besides, 7 was a reduced package with fewer preinstalled programs, in a time where not everyone had an internet connexion, even less a decent one)
@@RandomNameLastName811 ok so first, i'm french, and that's how it is spellt in french, and I had no idea it was different in English; second, I put my commentary in brackets so you Don't have to read it, and this is stupid and I should really stop doing that. Third, the french part of RUclips isn't as interesting.
Windows vista was such a step forward in my opinion and had a very user friendly ui. Also 0:03 windows 98 bad😑?!?
win98 fe was bad and win98 se was good
I think it really depended on what hardware you had at the time. I remember having a computer at the time with some single core AMD Athlon 64 and it's motherboard received proper vista drivers and it ran flawlessly. Even on a first generation SATA drive it ran quite snappy for the time. I never experienced any crashes whatsoever and it only came to an end when the board gave up and died. We moved on to a laptop with an AMD Turion Dual core I believe, and that ran absolutely fine as well, that was one of the HP Pavilions with the famous GPU failure fault so after that died I moved on to a desktop based on the AM3+ socket, an ASUS board which also had proper Windows Vista drivers, and once again it ran flawlessly! I had been on that OS for a solid 8 years before moving to Windows 7 as I needed better software compatibility, but my time on Vista was great and it'll always be my favourite OS
People also forget that Vista was the first properly supported 64-bit Windows. XP 64-bit never had a good driver development base. Once the hardware and drivers caught up with Vista, the changes to 7 were tiny, but by that time the reputation damage was done.
Windows 10 is great!
This -- It's as good as W7 if not better.
wait,
HOW IS WINDOWS 10 BAD?
AND HOW IS 8.1 GOOD?
ITS EIGHT BUT WITH A NEW NAME
sometimes i just..
dont get people
Haters gonna hate, but I rather liked 8.1, much better than 8
yes, 8.1 is eight with a new name, and so is 7 (win 6.1) vista with a new name. The cycle never made sense.
@@wordart_guian And vista's just a reskin of XP, which was a reskin of 2000, which was a reskin of NT4, which was a reskin of NT3.51, which was a reskin of NT3.5, which was a reskin of NT3... The loop must go on.
Say what you will, I liked Vista, I had a Vista laptop from 2007-2015, I didn't want Win 8
I think the main problem was being almost built from ground up using NT, my older programs and games worked perfectly under Vista mode not using earlier emulation
I love Windows 10 and Federal Government of Canada finally switching to Windows 10 from XP this year by upgrading hundreds of thousands of computers in many government departments and agencies across our country. They are going from Windows 7 directly to Windows 10. So think Windows 10 is super stable and easy to manage for IT guys.
They were able to finish it. It's a shame that the "major features cut from the OS" list has a length of several dozen. Here's some features intended for Longhorn:
- Aero (shipped)
- Aero Glass (shipped, removed after Windows 8 Release Preview)
- Sidebar (shipped, removed in Windows 7 (the gadgets could float around on their own), and then completely removed after Windows 8 Release Preview, although all of the things that would make it useful were gone after 2005)
- WinFS (dropped from the OS in 2004, after the reset, and planned to be integrated into SP1. A beta version was released in 2005, then a "beta 1 refresh" in early 2006, before being cancelled in June of 2006.)
- Avalon (shipped as the Windows Presentation Foundation)
- Indigo (shipped as the Windows Communication Foundation)
- Virtual desktops (dropped, shipped in Win10, although in LH there were only 4 but you could have separate wallpapers for each)
- Castles (kind of shipped as HomeGroups in windows 7, but not really)
- Libraries/virtual folders (dropped in 2006, shipped in Windows 7)
- PC-to-PC Sync (dropped in June 2006)
- Active Content Wizard (renamed to Guided Help, then dropped in 2006 - technically did ship with Vista RTM/SP0, but nothing used it)
- WinFX (Avalon, Indigo, and WinFS) (partially shipped)
- New start menu (shipped)
there's a lot more.
Vista was good on a good computer, but totally crap on low end PCs, it had very good compatibility with Windows XP and it runs anything Windows 7 runs. But it doesn't have any advantages over Windows 7, even if at the time it launched it was the best OS.
Katerpillar Hilter I could post a VERY long name of things Vista can't run but 7 can.
till you ran solitare on a stock vista system and it crashed.
Yeah, all Vista really needed was a service pack like in the case of XP wich was also fairly crap when it released.
Windows Vista is kinda good
very good. it is very good.
1. XP (My First time OS)
2. Windows 7 (2020 RIP )
thank for "windows 10" to switch linux
I still use Windows 7 on my main computer and Linux Mint on my laptop. Gonna switch completely to Linux by the end of the year.
@@DacLMK I dove head first in. Gimme a shout on the comments of my channel if you want some help.
using kde neon
@@clickhereidareyou5950 haha Artix Linux btw
The main problems with vista came from the manufacturers. They sold machines with 512MB of ram on a system that needed a minimum of 2GB of ram. People assumed the problem was the OS. I had 6GB of ram in my vista machine and had no problems at all.
i grew up on XP and vista. I LOVE VISTA.
Vista was a legend. Everyone who says it's bad it's because they didn't try it
vista sp2 was actually the peak of Windows versions. 7 was a slight downsizing with a new name, but it was the beginning of the fall.
Am I the only one who likes vista
No.
No. I'm using Vista Home Premium right now to write this reply.
I am running Vista Business because it's what came on the Dell 960 I bought off eBay. After initial install and 3 days of d/l over 140 Microsoft Updates I guess it's all right. (Although I am running Mint on another partition while answering this)
No
Yeah, I don't care what people say: Vista was and is still my favorite Windows version.
I’m getting xp for Christmas
Windows Xp Pro😂🤣 it’s old
Windows Xp Pro cool i got a ballpoint pen last christmas.
Best OS of all time
Nice
Are u having a time machine? 😂
I bought a laptop with Vista on it soon after it was released and used it without any issues for over two years. I still don't get what all the consternation was over it.
Ahhhh yes, vista! My childhood!!
How could you hate it? it's so nostalgic, you can't help but like it!
same. those were the days.
I loved Vista and the said bar! #nostalgia
You just called windows 8 good
HisShadowX stfu normie
Sigika Toreno wut?
Windows *_8.1_*
He called 8.1 good.
8 sucked, but 8.1 was actually pretty alright.
Alright ///////////////////////////////////// Good
I’ve had so many stability issues with Windows 10. I’m liking it less and less each day....
Did you do clean install of Windows 10? Old drivers could be your problem.
Windows 10 is ugly useless piece of shit i don't know of a single reason to "down"grade to it from win 7
windows 10 is the best
I've had more stability issues with Windows 7 than I did with Windows 10...
Install Linux or Windows 7. Just get away from this bloatware-filled spyware OS.
I did the one of the beta tests for Vista, and it was awesome. Most of the problems I had for it were due to lack of drivers, which is pretty obvious since the OS hadn't been released yet. Then it came out and...I have no idea wtf happened.
Vista was like "Hey user! Would you like to breathe? You need to contact your administrator for that!" "Hey user! Would you like to speak? You need to contact your administrator for that too!"