Windows Vista - The 'Wow' ends now (End of Support Retrospective)

It only felt appropriate to make this week's video about Windows Vista, since today marks the official end of support for the OS. This video takes a step back to examine Windows Vista, from how it came to be, to it's ultimate fate. If you're still using Windows Vista, you will no longer receive security patches and updates from Microsoft, making you more vulnerable to viruses and malware.

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[TimurTripp]

Vista was a beautiful OS back in the day, took some hints from Apple's Mac OS X and made XP look outdated immediately.

[CEOable]

All done with the classic Windows operating systems! Windows Vista will forever be missed.

[TooSweatyU]

Vista was completely amazing.

Most of the backlash was from people upgrading their shitty 512mb/1gb of ram PCs to a newer flashy OS with all the bells and whistles enabled and expected it to scream...

I made so much money those days doing pc cleanup, optimization and maintenance which 95% of the times was just disabling Aero and window shadows and removing bloatware from prebuilt pcs and laptops, which was much worse at the time.
I mean, it was mostly the same, but people had less ram and less powerful cpus and less screen space, so the performance/bloat impact was much worse.

The other problem was that it actually FIXED lots of long standing problems with Windows XP. Which were a LOT of problems.
Lots and lots of software had to use workaround for those problems and lack of functionality on XP.
Basicly, fixing the OS meant breaking a lot of software.

The last major problem was people expecting the same 2000-2004 hardware they were using to work on Vista.
Vista required new drivers, and if the manufacturer of a piece of hardware didn't deemed it fit to support it after 3 or 3+ years it would not work with Vista.

All of that was mostly not Vista's fault.
If somehow we had a time machine and released Windows 7 instead of Vista it would had had pretty much the exact same problems.
In fact testament to how good Vista was is Windows 7.
I mean, the thing is pretty much just Vista SP2, renamed and with a new taskbar and theme.

[Wizzardo]

RIP Windows Vista! Your design will live forever!

[ToniML]

When I first saw Vista, I actually said "WOW!".

[mohcrabtree]

The Wow Ends now... R.I.P. Vista. Still Love. Windows XP, VISTA will live for me for Ever. when Windows 7 die, iam will still Using IT. Vista and XP too

[jndominica]

This system looks so good compared to Windows Metro. Now that 10 GB or greater SxS directory and several dozen running processes is the norm, there is no solid reason to hate Vista. A radically different file system without familiar paradigms, drive letter, fixed directory tree, etc., would be horrible. The file system and the file manager (other than always changing Explorer) is where one can retreat when confronted with new virtual directories, libraries, cloud, symlinks and so on, until one has time to learn what does are and where files saved to them actually go.

[Mr._Lechkar]

Windows Vista was a really interesting and nostalgic system to look at, especially with its development, interface, sounds and applications. It has now been almost a year since the end of support and I still have some memories of playing with Vista, as well as modified XP versions made to look like Vista, such as "Windows XP Sweet".

[TheCanadianToast]

Rest in peace Windows Vista. I remember using the operating system on my Toshiba laptop before in-place upgraded it to Windows 7... Now I was a kid back in 2007, I was 10 years old at the time Windows Vista came out in January 2007. I would turn 11 years old in September. But now in 2017, I am 20 years old, turning 21 in September. Wow, time flies by really fast, that's for sure. Anyways, but now, Windows Vista has less than 1% market share at this time, so basically the operating system has been left in the dust, and is hardly being used by anyone. But wow Microsoft, 10 years of support for Windows Vista from 2007 to 2017 from an operating system that did get that much hate, but yet Windows XP got longer support then Windows Vista due to Windows XP's highly loved popularity at the time. From 2001 to 2014...

[alvzcizzler]

Windows Vista is a great OS, But It had it's flaws in the beginning, I've never had problems with Windows Vista, But some people where just plain idiots and blame Windows Vista.

[gonigeena]

why am i getting so emotional over operating systems ?? :(

[aidan]

Vista changed everything,
Vista, we love you.
Rest in peace.

[aidan]

Vista was so good! I have a Dell Inspiron 530 in my house (not my main computer) it is fine, it has Vista Home Premium SP2. No issues.

[rcollosi]

Ah, Windows Vista.. my childhood. I remember playing on my grandma's Dell Inspiron, downloading a bunch of toolbars and clicking on ads that said "Play Super Mario Bros. Online!", then playing crappy Mario flash games on the web. Then watching YouTube videos and having to get off because they said a bad word. I thought back then that toolbars were a good thing, probably because they provided even more crappy flash games, the main source of entertainment. Other than the Wii, of course.

[slls]

I never had a problem with vista. It always ran nice and smooth for me but that's (mainly because I had a pretty beefy computer at the time). I enjoyed my time with Vista and still to this day it's one of my favorite version of Windows and I love the way it looks with the aero glass, beautiful backgrounds, and with that cool looking taskbar and start button. I love Vista.

[eupher]

People hated Vista because they were running on hardware that couldn't handle it very well. Plus hardware manufactures dropped the ball on drivers for the first year or so. But after SP2 it was close to on par with 7.

[Gamer]

I remember PC’s being sold and advertised with XP even well after 7 came out

[niklas]

*Idea for those who want to continue Vista:*
1. Don't click on suspicious Ads, don't run dangerous files.
2. Use a good Firewall and a good AntiVirus.
3. Use a modern and supported Web Browser, means that it receives security updates (Firefox (Derivatives), Opera, ...)
4. Use Adblock and other Add-Ons to protect yourself
5. Make and use a Standard User.
*LEAVE YOUR SUGGESTIONS DOWN BELOW!*

[tantaf]

April 11th 2017, I turned 7 and got a Nintendo switch. Although my birthday was on that very day.. vista became obsolete. Without vista, we would not have aero. One word to describe vista during its support streak: WOW!

[FireBlades]

My main computer was a windows vista laptop, both of them were. Even though vista was slow, i still remember playing Spore and minecraft on it, and its where i made my first animations. Now my current computer is a windows 10 desktop but i still miss the portability.