Windows Vista Support Has Officially Ended

Source:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2017/04/win...icially-ended/

Perhaps no other iteration of Windows has created such a bad reputation
for itself than Windows Vista. Universally loathed, Microsoft was quick
to move on after Vista and didn’t quite look back. However, since it was
a major platform release, the company has had to support it for a very
long time. Now, a decade after it was first launched, Microsoft today
announced that Windows Vista support has officially ended.

What this means is that after April 11th, 2017, Windows Vista users will
no longer get any new security updates, non-security hotfixes,
additional support options, or any other online technical content
updates from Microsoft.

The company says in a post on its website that it 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.�

Windows Vista PCs will still work but they will be more vulnerable to
security risks because Microsoft will no longer be providing any
security patches that protect it from the latest threats. Moreover,
software and hardware manufacturers will continue to optimize their
products for more recent versions of Windows, which will result in more
apps and services no longer working properly with Vista.

Microsoft recommends that Vista owners upgrade to Windows 10 but it’s
unlikely that PCs from Vista’s early days will be able to support the
latest iteration. Some customers may have to buy new PCs that come with
Windows 10 installed, fortunately for them, there are tons of options in
all price ranges.

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In message , Mr. Man-wai Chang
writes:
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Windows Vista PCs will still work but they will be more vulnerable to
security risks because Microsoft will no longer be providing any
security patches that protect it from the latest threats. Moreover,
software and hardware manufacturers will continue to optimize their
products for more recent versions of Windows, which will result in more

* new versions of *

apps and services no longer working properly with Vista.
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(Versions that were already working properly will of course continue to
do so.)
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On 13/04/2017 3:27 AM, philo wrote:

I gave Vista a try shortly after it was released and it was horrible
beyond belief...it took 15 minutes or more just to delete something.

A few years later I tried it and after the updates it seemed to work
quite well but it's reputation was ruined by releasing it too soon.

It's the first usable 64-bit Windows after 64-bit WinXP. It worked
fairly well for me, and some banks' ATM machines used it as OS.

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:04:52 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 13/04/2017 3:27 AM, philo wrote:

I gave Vista a try shortly after it was released and it was horrible
beyond belief...it took 15 minutes or more just to delete something.

A few years later I tried it and after the updates it seemed to work
quite well but it's reputation was ruined by releasing it too soon.

It's the first usable 64-bit Windows after 64-bit WinXP. It worked
fairly well for me, and some banks' ATM machines used it as OS.

I have Vista Ultimate and it works very well.