Why Windows Vista Sucked | What Went Wrong
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- In 2007, Microsoft launched, to the general public, one of their most ambitious products: Windows Vista...and then it sucked. But Why? What exactly went wrong with Windows Vista? Why did it fail? After all, it included many overhauls to the Windows experience, and its entire structuring surrounded a concept that would also become a part of Microsoft’s marketing slogan: “bringing clarity to your world.” However, Mircosoft's marketing and how they approached Vista's development would show that this just wasn't enough.
I think one of the most fascinating things about the phenomenon surrounding Vista’s downfall is that there really isn’t one straightforward answer. It’s a fairly complex situation that really needs to be delved into to be fully understood, a situation that frankly poses another interesting question: Was Vista really as bad as we remember? A superficial answer would tell you that Vista’s failure was simply caused by development issues, the popularity of Windows XP, unfavorable marketing, mob mentality, and, in some respects, simply coming out at the wrong time.
But if we really want to get into the nitty gritty details of what exactly caused Vista to fail, we need to go all the back to 2001. Yes, Vista already began its decline before even the release of Windows XP. Though it wasn’t called Vista at the time. Microsoft’s new project was under a completely different name: Windows Longhorn. Code names were often given to Windows versions during their stages of development, Windows XP was Whistler, Vista was Longhorn, and Blackcomb was an even higher, at the time, unknown version of Windows: Windows 7. Whistler and Blackcomb were names of mountains in British Columbia with Longhorn being a bar between the two places, and specifically Blackcomb was meant to be Microsoft’s next big release of Windows, and just as revolutionary as Windows XP. This Longhorn project was meant to essentially be the vehicle between these two operating systems, but it soon started to become more than that.
You see, Longhorn’s original release date was in 2003, with Blackcomb in 2005. But overtime during its development, Microsoft began piling on more and more features to Longhorn, which would ultimately harm productivity. Many leaks of the OS, both real and fake, began to surface on the web in mid-2002, giving out more information about its features than Microsoft wanted the public to know. But at the beginning, Longhorn didn’t seem much different from XP, and because of this, people still didn’t really know what to expect, despite what they were being told. An article titled “A Fork in the Road to Longhorn?” was posted to the Direction on Microsoft website in October of 2002, expressing a lot of skepticism about the OS meeting its initial deadline, and they were ultimately right. By 2004, Longhorn was still in development. Rather than being just a transitional release of Windows like it was originally intended, Microsoft soon had a lot more features in mind that they wanted to add to Longhorn. This included a new security architecture called “Palladium,” (or NGSCB) which used hardware and software to protect the OS from malicious activity, a new 3D GUI, faster desktop search, the sidebar (a primitive version of what we recognize today as the “notification center” in Windows 10) and a new storage system called Windows Future Storage (WinFS).
Longhorn became an ambitious project, and many features meant for Blackcomb were now being crammed into Longhorn. It was clear Microsoft didn’t have a good sense of direction and weren’t exactly sure what they wanted Longhorn to be. The OS became more bloated and unstable overtime, and big changes such as completely rewriting some parts of the OS, made it very difficult to use. Microsoft accepted that there was too many problems, and by August 2004, the Longhorn project was completely reset, and the release date was now uncertain...
Microsoft then made many changes to the project, including even the project's name, which was now, of course, "Vista." Each beta release gave them more chances to make it better, and in a lot of ways, things were actually looking quite nice, and Microsoft was finally able to get Vista released on time. But still...it sucked.
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0:00 - Introduction
2:54 - Start of Development (Windows Longhorn)
6:47 - The Big Reset
8:17 - Vista is Released
9:13 - Windows XP
10:15 - Unfavorable Marketing
13:02 - Mob Mentality
14:43 - Wasn't Made For These Times
15:27 - Conclusion
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Windows Vista is better than Windows 8, change my mind
@@gamingglatiator69 100%
Windows vista’s interface must be one of the most visually beautiful softwares I’d ever seen. But yes it was sluggish as hell back in 2007. Needless to say, vista walked so that windows 7 could run.
Totally agreed. Vista had the most amazing visuals ever
I had vista when it release 2007. When MS solved problems like memory eating it really work well. My combuter was core2duo 3750 and 8gb ram 500gb hard disk. Then I use readyboost usb memory. With that readyboost memory Vista running smooth. I had no problems to install games or playing vista. All office tools works well and other working softhware what I use in 2007. At the end I was very happy vista user and I use it to the end of vista timeline even win 7 has arrived allready.🙂 And now today I have to say that vista is much better that win10 to use. Win10 is no longer just pc softhware it is mix phone and gaming apps. And I hate it sooo much. And normal pc user has been forget in MS. They want that people playing some unnessary apps. And Today windows 10 don't run older softhware. In pc user I want windows 7 back. It was best microsoft os. And then come vista and xp. I will forget windows os when win 10 updated end and start to use Linux. I will never updated on Win11.
Windows Vista doesn’t have the same nostalgia factor as a lot of old OSes because Windows 7 was just Windows Vista but better in every way. The graphics were only slightly downgraded for 7 but otherwise Vista just feels totally redundant in a way that even Windows 95 doesn’t.
@@jari7018 windows 7 was definitely the best OS. Windows 10 is so annoying to use because I feel like I’m using a windows phone.
@@zed4643 If 10 was like using a windows phone, I have a feeling 11 will be like using an iphone.
I loved how the OS looked like everything was made by glass, it looked so clean and sophisticated compared to XP
Xp looked like cheap Blue plastic and it's very unsecure, Vista on the other hand is still pretty secure after 14 weird years. Plus the glass theme fits the Name "Windows" very well since household windows are made out of glass!!
I agree, the whole "glass gradient" Y2K aesthetic is really cool and still looks modern today in my opinion. Flat color is for country flags!
And like glass, it is easily broken
@@distendedmist5840 Commrade, don't provoke me
@@distendedmist5840 LOL
My older brother had a crappy laptop with vista on it, he passed away in 2009. Vista will always hold a special place in my heart for all the afternoons we spent playing around in his laptop, watching CZcams and drawing and playing games.
Im so sorry for your loss :(
Rest in peace to your brother
@Heartland Railfanner™ insensitive
@@yeetsupYT snowflake
@@rafaelbudimnn American
Man I loved Vista, I remember being so blown away by the new UI it looked so modern and futuristic at the time.
Vista was actually AHEAD of its time, To the point that computers couldn't handle the new UI and features.
Exactly! In a lot of ways, Vista was just sadly misunderstood. Thank you for watching! :)
Exactly. Had it been released later in 2007 or early 2008, the hardware would have been able to handle Vista a lot better. Intel Core 2 Duo and Quads were out in late 07/early 08 and AMD's Phenom 2's had dual, triple, quad and even six cores in the CPUs. Most computers at Vista's launch were Pentium 4's and Celeron D's with 512MB to 1GB of RAM, 100GB hard drives and integrated Intel GMA.
Nice roblox setup
I remember it was pretty cool looking, but it didn't support my ''Lexicon Omega'' USB Audio interface, which was the main reason I switched back to Windows XP. I also had some crashes from time to time. But I really liked the design.
Exactly vista was much ahead of it's time..
Our family used a Vista machine during my middle school years, so to me it was just normal. I didn't know anything about the negative perception people had of it nor did I really care. I just wanted to watch CZcams videos and play Club Penguin.
Facts but I was in early elementary
My uncle had Vista OS installed in his computer way back then when XP had its peak of popularity in almost everywhere as what my Dad also uses in his office. Aside from the appearance of it which I really appreciate, it feels home, relaxing and I used to borrow it to socialize with other people on Club Penguin. Those were the elementary days. And play some flash games online, and watch stickman animations, etc.
Similar story.
I wasn't a major gamer or anything, so Vista never seemed slow or underpowered for me... I even did a lot of art on it.
Same. I actually remember liking how it looks.
Same bro 😂
I remember vista being used in my school back then and I loved the Aero theme. No slowdowns, no crashes. It shows that with the right hardware, Vista was great. More than a decade later, I’m reliving Vista with a virtual machine
Me too!
Vista has a sound scheme that I loved so much that I only got to hear on CZcams through a channel that's known for archiving the different sounds computers made over the years.
No, even with "the right hardware", Vista was still crap. Not as bad as ME, which is still the worst OS ever puked out by Microsoft, but it ranks in the bottom 5 along side trash like the first Dos and ME. You just go by selective nostalgia, that's all.
Windows 7 is just Vista!
@@Seven71987 but better
One of the big issues with Vista is that you couldn't use drivers made for XP. So by the time 7 came around, which could use Vista drivers and vice-versa, all the drivers people needed were available.
In addition, hardware improved a lot during that era. A budget PC in 2009 was as good as a high-end one in 2006.
Windows 7 is windows vista lol
@@bchristian85 Oh yeah, the hayday of "Can it run Crysis?". Funny times.
@@bchristian85 And yet, Windows 10 ran better, even on an Athlon 64 from 2006, than Windows 7 ever did.
For some reason, Vista had my favourite aesthetic. It felt like the perfect middle ground between XP and 7. The fact most of the aesthetic carried into 7 must mean that was never much of an issue.
7 really was just what Vista could have been if it was polished
@@Keanine
7 was pretty much Vista with polish, and without the annoying additions that somehow wormed their way in from the Longhorn project, like Sidebar.
@@Keanine W7 also had important plumbing fixes and additions for tcp/ip and smb.
@@Keanine 7 was polished windows Vista in a functionality sense. Windows Vista always looked ever so slightly better to me.
Vista was NOT BAD. I completely agree this: "Vista just came out too early."
If Vista was release when at least 1-2GB RAM in a rig is common everywhere, I am sure we will never hear "Vista sucked"
I think that is a very accurate and fair assessment to make! A lot of Vista's issues were problems of the time that made it misunderstood. Thanks for watching! :)
Vista had problems with drivers... manufactures musts create all new drivers for NT 6.0 windows core... windows XP drivers wont works... Windows 7 had better start, becauase stable Vista drivers can works on Windows 7
if this be happend then it will be very good but now its time to bye to windows vista,7,8, and say hello to windows who missed all those windows
In terms of "Vista came out too early", I definitely agree. But eventually it "came out of beta" as it were, at which point it was renamed to "Windows 7"
The problem was they were installing this on pentium 4, single core machines with 512mb of RAM. Developers weren't ready with their Vista capable software either. The WDDM changed drastically and so did a lot of drivers. Anything with at least a pentium D or core 2 duo ran it fine. AMD phenom and anthlon processors worked well. I knew this going into the os because I did test it in it's stages
I remember installing Vista on my 1gb ram pc and it still ran without crashing. It was definitely ahead of it's time.
Obviously that service pack 1. Windows xp before service pack 1 also is unstable
I loved the looks and slick design of Vista, the aero effects were great, plus the cool integrated gadgets. I never had major problems with the system either.
It had driver problems for like the first 2 years. But after those got ironed out it was a pretty solid experience.
@@brobbus0 to be fairer to vista modern version lack those effects yet are even heavier and more bloated than ever.
@@brobbus0 Perhaps, but XP was heavier and more bloated than Windows 2000 and Windows 98 SE. In terms of functionality it added very little, if anything at all (to windows 2000 that is)
Everyone who said Vista was a bad operating system never experienced the HORROR that was Windows ME.
Exactly.
Just because something else is worse does not mean that it is good. ME was a total shit show, so that doesn't set the bar very high.
I was scrolling to find this comment. I would see the BSOD several times a day with Windows ME... Vista seemed like paradise by comparison.
Facts
True. Vista wasn't too bad, maybe the exception being the constant security prompts which MS dialed back in future OS versions. As for Windows ME, that was probably the least stable Windows OS I ever used. Luckily, Windows 2000 was available right at the time.
As a 7 year old kid when I first saw Windows Vista in 2007, I was in awe and felt as I had already began living in the future. I convinced both my parents to buy brand new Vista computers (because I assumed there wasn't such thing as installing the OS on old computers, to which, I judged correctly but for different reasons), and so, in 2007 and 2008, they got one each, to which, I loved them. I loved the apps they had, the gadgets sidebar, the glossy look and feel, and, just the fact it was the newest thing available. I had no idea people really hated it. Then Seven came out, and while I wasn't too excited for it other than that it was the newest OS, I asked my parents to upgrade just from the Vista computers because it was newer and Vista started to look somewhat aged. That's my story.
I didn’t know this OS garnered a bad reputation for itself either, and I loved using it until upgrading to 7.
Who let's their 7 year old talk them into spending hundreds of dollars on multiple computers
Vista looked pretty futuristic to 9-year-old me on my mom's new laptop as well. I don't recall her having any major issues with it but it was a new laptop designed for Vista, not an older one which had been upgraded. I got my own Vista laptop two years later and it felt like a massive upgrade. Then went to 7 which also felt like an upgrade but not as much as XP to Vista, then around the time 8 came out went to Mac and never looked back.
You can still have windows sidebar on windows 10. You just need to add back the registry values that it needs and directly copy windows sidebar from vista itself to the same folder in windows 10, and voila. I myself am using windows sidebar from windows vista in windows 10
I too think the same when i first saw vista!
It came pre-installed on my laptop I had when studying in university. The laptop had a dual core cpu and 2 gigs of memory. Vista worked great there and felt like a huge step from xp, I really enjoyed it.
"Dude, I got a Dell" laptop for Christmas in 2007 that came with Windows Vista. I was only 14 at the time so I didn't know much about anything, though I did already know about the negative reputation Vista had, probably from my older brother. My first impression was that the Aero UI was gorgeous, I loved the new sound scheme, and I thought the desktop gadgets were charming. I did immediately notice compatibility issues with some older games I tried to install, and I can remember how intrusive User Account Control was. Despite those issues, I have fond memories of using that scrappy little Dell with Vista from 8th grade to high school, dowloading countless mp3s off LimeWire, watching endless CZcams videos, editing my own terrible YTPs with Windows Movie Maker, and playing weird indie and flash games
Ngl that start up sound was really nostalgic
Yeah it was! Wait until the XP video comes out! :)
I was a Windows XP user I upgraded my computer to Ubuntu and I hated it so now I want to go back to Windows XP but at least someone has to admit to XP even today still is a good operating system
@@mrnobody.4069 ...but it doesn't even support licensed Minecraft lol
i am still using windows 7 till this day
And it was still in Windows 7.
Remember when I first switched from xp to vista, It was just like seeing the future. That UI looks gorgeous, the icons in vista is top level even now. When win7 came out, I really wanted it has the vista UI, but can run faster.
The switch was quite magical for me too. I felt that Vista was 10x easier to navigate than XP was, and I thought the search bar was just revolutionary at the time. Thanks for watching! :)
Tbh it didn't really run faster. Hardware just evolved. I remember installing the Vista beta on my xp machine, it ran perfectly fine. But I had more ram than the typical person at the time
@@_nom_ it's actually does. i remembered in 2008 i bought 2nd hand PC with 2,8ghz pentium 4 single core, 1,5GB DDR memory, and 512mb ATI Radeon X1550 on AGP bus.
i fresh installed Vista SP1 on that machine. everything running fine until i installed all tools i needed for my studies like Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Visual Basic and antivirus. next time i boot up my computer, it took 3 times longer than before, and when i doing something heavy productivity, it starts to showing bluescreen or lag on the UI. after experiencing that, i switched back to XP
1 year later, win7 came out, i tried to install that on my very same machine. after i installed everything i need for my works and studies, surprisingly, even using the same driver as vista, the experience was totally different. boot time of course take longer but not significant enough to notice. the UI doesn't have any lag issues and i've never encountered any blue screen until i upgrade again to windows 8.
My experience with Vista was very good because When Vista was released I bought a new laptop and it was with visa preinstalled. It was a nice and smooth experience (3GB of Ram, and a Centrino 2 processor). I can’t forget this system.
@@DuoizHere XD
Vista came out in secondary school and I had to use it for school projects and it was definitely buggy but I still really enjoyed using it. It was so clean and futuristic looking to me and I always felt as though it was a bridge to the next OS anyway for some reason, even back then. My dad is a programmer however and he HATED it. So my experience with it was mixed, I'd say.
My experience exactly back in 2007
My hardware definitely was not ideal to run Vista, but as a kid who was just getting into the online world, playing old MMOs, and foruming, I loved the sleek glassy look of Vista in contrast to the blocky and industrial XP we'd grown up on. It was pretty common for my OS to stop allowing me to run games for one reason or another, and I did grow to resent Vista for it, but overall, hearing that start up tone, seeing the shiny interface, I'm brought back to the times in my life where my computer was a refuge from the difficulties of adolescence, school, and family drama. As soon as I heard that startup sound, I was transported to another world, and there, I was happy. Thank you, Vista.
My family went from Windows 98 to Vista, and I remember being so blown away. I was so puzzled as to why people hated it so much
I went from XP to Vista when I upgraded my machine and it still blew me away. When Vista's on hardware that can handle it, it puts XP to shame.
Windowx XP worked wonderful.Vista didnt support your gpu or audio card , so beside not getting a improvement , you got a bricked OS
@@asteroidrules The catch being hardware that can keep up with Vista.
Most people cannot afford the latest of hardware with their budget.
@@asteroidrules It lagged a bit when I upgraded my parents desktop from 2005 with an Athlon 64 processor, but when I installed it on my 2007 MacBook Pro it ran pretty well. I would also say a big issue was that the 32-bit versions of Vista were not as stable as the 64-bit version. I originally only had the disk for the 32-bit versions, but when I upgraded the RAM from 2 GB to 4 GB I had to reinstall the 64-bit version to use all my RAM on Windows (2 GB was enough for Boot Camp, but not enough when running Vista as a virtual machine).
@@Aereto Well Microsoft is forcing that issue now, they significantly overinflated Windows 11's listed system requirements just to make sure people don't use it on hardware that's on the margins.
This video is mostly fair, but it's leaving out one key element: Microsoft has historically relied on the revenue from mediocre (or awful) intermediate releases between their premiere operating systems. These intermediate OS's add functionality, but not really as much as would generally warrant getting a new one. The simple fact is that most people were happy with XP. I loved XP. And I didn't get much experience with Vista but there were too many credible stories of it just being slow and buggy. And Microsoft's position was basically, "You're computer must be too old so go buy a new one," which didn't help. Vista was a solution to a problem most users didn't have.
@BloxyHD I just finished upgrading hardware at an office with 15 workstations abolishing the computers that could (and did) run Windows 10, but were a bit sluggish. Now each of the 15 computers show Windows 11 in their updates section and 10 of them show they don't qualify. Mine doesn't either. I can't even test it unless I get a new one.
100% agree. XP did everything I needed. Vista added functionality I didn't need or want in exchange for sluggish and buggy performance.
Great reply frank
Windows peaked with XP, IMO. And very true re: intermediates. Back in the day the running gag was that only every second Windows was destined to be a good one.
@@brycemcneil4404 Everyone is forgetting the system worse then Vista. Who remembers windows ME now that was the pinical of garbage lol
I loved Vista visual overhaul, but it was very sluggish for me back in the day when I had an old WinXP laptop. Thank goodness XP had a lot of customization options that I managed to have almost every visual update of Vista on my XP OS without sacrificing performance.
Vista really needed 2GB of RAM to run as well as XP did. I tried installing it on a laptop with only 1GB and it was sluggish. In 2006, 2GB of RAM was the standard for the high-end machines. Budget machines still had 512MB and most had 1GB.
Vista was great. Within the year it was released I bought a Vista preinstalled VAIO notebook with 4 Gb of ram and with a decent gpu at the time. It was a pleasure to use. I loved it. Vista was my favorite Windows OS all time because it was beautiful, futuristic and actually it performed very well on a hardware really meant for it.
Windows xp era only got 256mb RAM so when Microsoft jump to minimum 1GB ram, its huge different because back then RAM is pricier than today. I still remember used DDR1 1GB costing 30 usd so nobody want to use vista unless its came preinstalled
I had memories about Vista and 7. I can only remember the good.
Same here! I enjoyed Vista's search capabilities and did not really pay a lot of attention to the glaring problems with it at the time. Thanks for watching! :)
im still using 7 its never failed me its actually a revamped version of xp
@@nationsquid I had no single problem with Windows Vista. Everybody said it slow (etc.), but I didn't notice anything compared to Windows XP.
@@nationsquid same same
@@RRJOfficial ikr windows xp brought me the most memories
I remember having my first laptop with vista installed. Honestly it was mindblowing how good the design was compared to xp.
And i don't remember any error or crashed. At least until the dust clogged the fan and toast it to oblivion
I don't remeber any crash on mine either. I don't think vista was crash prone, unless you had the bad nvidia driver.
My only main issue when I got my laptop with Vista was a bluetooth bug. Outside of that it ran fine and I never had a major negative experience.
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and i had vista in my childhood, and seen many errors(and when some appeard, i was running to other room because sound of errors was scaring me), but, i sill like vista
@@dragonx01 errors with sound can't be bad can they? like error messages with a dialog and stuff?
My biggest gripe with Vista was the obnoxious security implementation. It felt like the operating system just seized control.of itself every step of the way, and it made it feel like my computer wasn't mine.
Likewise,I got it removed and XP installed instead, it was a pain ..
Do you think "your" computer with a comercial OS is yours?
If you attempt to run something that requires permission as a standard user, you need to enter admin password instead of just "Yes" and "No" buttons
I used Vista on my new build in late 2008. I didn’t really have any problem with it and never really understood all the hate. I had top of the line hardware at the time which might have helped. I actually used it up until a few years ago. I’m still getting used to Windows 10. The only Windows I’ve hated with a passion was 8.
This was me. My rig I had built in 2008 came with Vista and loved it. I had zero issues running it and when I made the upgrade to Windows 7 in 2011 it just felt more polished.
I really like Windows 10, wasn't a huge fan at the start but once I found out you can customize the layout it made it a much better experience.
To this day I still absolutely LOVE the look of Vista... It was so pretty. So much better than the flat materiel esque design we have today on computers throughout. Also the old Iphone UI where nothing was flat. Everything was cel-shaded.
Flat gang unite
yeah now when i think of old and nostalgic, i think of nicely shaded gui and icons.
much as i hated Vista, Aero when it had the proper hardware was awesome. W7 had an addon from someone that provided what Aero did (if not Aero itself) but by the time of w10 the industry decided Aero stuff was too much of a resource hog.
@@cr-pol iirc it was stripped because the original surface wasn't powerful enough for it
Hahahahah sims cheatscodes 11:00
I've got to say, I LOVE the glossy 3D aesthetic found on Vista and 7, the current flat and oversimplified design they've got going on now sucks.
@kpnmn99 vista and 7 can set a video as wallpaper too (live wallpaper), surprise 😆
and that's what window blinds is for
The same with iOS
iOS till iOS 6 was so awesome!!! Then turned flat and boring
@@mewtwo.150 agreed
@@mewtwo.150 That's the reason why I've downgraded my iPhone 4 and 4s to the skeuomorphic iOS versions :-)
I was 6 when the os came out but I know as I got older I got to see my friends using it whilst playing games at their house. Us having windows XP at home Vista looked so beautiful, the look of the software excited me. I’ve never had the vista experience at home. After XP we started using windows 7. And I remember liking it a lot. I actually still prefer it to the versions that came after it.
That "Welcome" chime in the beginning, plus Inkball and Purble Place, sure brought back memories!! I was in 3rd grade, I believe, when we upgraded from our old Win98 machine to Vista. We had the Core 2 Duo and 2 GB of RAM. It was pretty incredible in the beginning. I think we had Service Pack 2 or 3, so likely we were lucky enough to wait till after the worst was fixed. That computer did languish eventually. The sound glitched out and not even upgrading, replacing, and buying an external soundcard could help. It might have been user error, though... My parents had not one, not two, but THREE antivirus programs, and they probably fought a devastating war of attrition on that poor machine.
I feel like vista was just unfairly hated on even more than it should of had
I agree! It had its problems, but there were certainly a few that were beyond its control. Thanks for watching! :)
I sort of feel the same. I feel a bit like most of the issue for windows vista was that, I think like linus from techquicky and LMG said, was partly because of those who upgraded their operating system as time went on and didn't upgrade their systems as frequent as the release of the operating system, or you didn't have a decked out system to start with at the time of vista's release.
my biggest con w Win Vista - was it was a resource hog - Idid like the UI and I still like it far better then Win 11
the early build of windows 11 is not final
I remerber back in 2008 people were divided about Vista, some said it just slowed their PC down, others say it was the best OS they had so far.
I think the universal hate came after Windows 7 came out
Honestly thought Windows ME was the worse it would literally break its self
This, ME is the worst of all time, that thing never was able to last more than a year. POS OS.
I stayed on 98SE till XP..
The worst by far
@@Planetdune
I had an Sony vista computer that had circle buttons on the monitors side (I don’t remember well) and it had vista on it and it was the first OS I had used. This was also the time where minecraft was really old and everyone in my family tried installing it not knowing Java is required, so I had to play some knock offs but there are lots of old games I had played such as turtle obdysy 2 and this cactus cowboy thing but those were just platformers but are quite old from now.
It got sold because we were too dumb to realise we could upgrade the computer but that’s how I lost my windows vista computer.
In 2021 I got a Veio sony all in one touchscreen computer for 80$ which was almost never used by the owner as he had plenty of computers. So I got it and dumped my windows 10 red predator gaming pc and I had dozens of issues with the computer.
So 1 is that it can’t run source games but only 2 that were Half life death match and all the half life 1 games and expansion packs, but if I run games like half life episode 1 or games other than valve they mostly fail but this may be the fact that my computer doesn’t have right system requirement but it turns out that the game works but I can’t see anything unless if I get another computer to remote play into the windows 7 computer.
But I did upgrade it to windows 10 after it failing to load simple stuff like settings and how it can’t run 8 bit games. But that made it worser as I think that’s due to the computer having the computer in the monitor as the computer back seems small.
And yes I typed all that just for this reply.. Poor me...
Glad they brought that feature back with windows 10 and it's updates.
My old school used to have Ms. Vista installed on some PC. I think it was running quite good. I didn't experience any lag or anything bad. I think it's because the PC there had been upgraded in terms of hardware and not only software
The only thing I remember about Vista was that it was on at least some of my elementary school's computers (2008 or so). The computers in our computer class had XP after this though, so they might've just dropped any plans of upgrading everything to Vista after experiencing first hand what they were going to spend their money on.
I remember liking Window Vista. I kept wondering why so many people were talking it down, when I rarely had problems with it myself.
They had shitty systems lol. Never had a problem with Vista.
@@Dongzzzzzz The real problem is Microsoft released Vista's system requirements long before the feature creep had set in and they weren't going to change them, so they had to make Vista technically run on hardware that just couldn't handle it, unsurprisingly it ran like crap. I have to think this mistake was the inspiration for Windows 11 having artificially inflated system requirements, Win 11 sucks in plenty of ways, but they specifically inflated its system requirements to ensure people don't install it on hardware that it would run poorly on, they're trying to stave off that negative perception. Of course unlike Vista Windows 11 isn't a salvageable OS underneath so it's still going to be hated.
@@asteroidrules in windows 11 registry it calls itself windows 10, hkey local machine>software>microsoft>windowsnt>currentversion>KABLOOEY
@@Dongzzzzzz 75 percent people back then have shitty system, (outside USA and west Europe)
The problem was it came pre installed on machines with only 512MB of RAM when in reality, it needed 1-2GB of RAM to run properly. They underestimated the system requirements
While I understand the current "flat" design, I still love Aero more. Hell, I even liked Flip3D. One of the reason I was late to upgrade to Win10 because I still loved Win7 UI (similar UI with Vista)
To get around Win10 looking kinda meh there are plenty of overlays you can find online to make it look or act like older systems. Personally got mine looking like WinXp with an old start bar.
@@KrazyKupo Stardock has a software suite that is absolutely great for doing this exact thing.
I use default win10 on my main pc, but for a while I had a laptop running 10 that looked identical to 7. It was wonderful
I feel like Microsoft tried to bring back the Aero vibe to Windows 11 💀!
I like aero a lot too, in fact I got windows sidebar from windows vista working on windows 10, and it's great!
That's why I kinda like the Windows 11 UI. The dark theme looks really good. Still not as good as Windows Vista looked, but it's a great step to the right direction. Now Microsoft just has to understand what brought them to the position of the leading OS developer and what they are currently doing wrong.
I absolutely loved the interface, and it even ran well in my sister's notebook that came with it pre-installed. I really wanted to use it, but my PC only had 256MB of RAM so I didn't even try. When I could get a PC good enough for Vista, 7 was already out, though.
Windows Vista was the first OS I knew from my home computer, and I loved it to pieces. It was so beautiful, it looked so clean and using it was extremely straightforward. It came with the best pre-installed games, too. It might just be nostalgia talking but I've missed it ever since. Windows 7 was a divine successor, maybe the best Windows of all time, but it saddens me how we've grown farther from the Vista with every version after.
Hot take: never had issues with Vista. I used it from 2009 to 2012, when I got my first laptop which had 7 installed. I can say for sure I enjoyed my time using it. Definitely not the same is able for me to say about Windows 8. I hated Windows 8.
8.1 was okay. 8 sure sucked tho.
@@armyofninjas9055 that's fair. 8.1 was alright, I used both 8 and then 8.1 and I hated base 8
the entire tile theme was unnecessary.
I used it all the way up until Windows 10 came out, and only really NEEDED to abandon it then, because key work software I use stopped updating for it. I never had any issues. I ran it on a custom made PC with top quality components, and it could play Warcraft in Ultra mode, at the time I got rid of it, a good while after Windows 10 was released.
i feel the same. i did not have issues with vista that made me hate it. but when win 7 came along my laptop ran so much better.
i never used 8 and what little i did i hated. win7 was definitely the successor to xp. win 10 isnt bad
i have grown up with vista
when you showed the purble place
i was like- i know this game, thiis is the game that i have grown up with.
Saaame, it ran on my first laptop. When I was like 9 I had no issues with it whatsoever. I miss using it
@@mxmln8699 bro why You got three aaa are u not speak english or something like that?
@@petricasarbu1600 r u serious?
@@mxmln8699 what?
I remember Vista... My biggest issues with this OS were on one hand the slow-down compared to XP and on the other hand that I got annoyed with security questions. In few cases I was asked many times just to start the application - sometimes even in between usage. You could disable this security feature but it was just all or nothing - not a good choice.
vista was called ,,The Pain Starts Now.''
I had a ton of issues with Vista. I had bought a new Lenovo laptop at the time (Black Friday, 2007), and upon booting I blue screened. Vista would create random files on my desktop every now and again and I would have to be diligent in deleting them. It would blue screen all the time as well. All my old programs that hadn’t been updated in a while (such as Pro-Tools since I make music) literally didn’t run unless I ran them in compatibility mode. I really gave it a good, solid shot for about half a year. Then I downgraded to XP once SP3 came out.
I remember when I “upgraded” my fancy new dual core laptop from XP to Vista…. It was the most PAINFUL experience I’ve ever Hadith that laptop, specially the situation with drivers. None of it’s fancy features worked, like the fingerprint scanner, the web cam, the IR remote, and even some of the ports like the fire wire port it had. And even some basic stuff like the printer drivers were literally nonexistent, so I had to transfer files from my laptop to my dad’s desktop when I wanted to print my homework at home… Man, they crammed so much stuff on that OS that it took 3 years for hardware and drivers to catch up.
I wonder how it's possible that after tons of testing in different devices and conditions they didn't encounter any issues then suddenly when it's released it doesn't work for anybody. The only other possibility is that they tested, the features didn't work and they still released. That or they simply didn't test/tested poorly
I had a similar situation with my HP laptop when upgrading to Win10
They fixed auto driver downloads in late windows 8. Also, the system constantly cached programs and files into ram even if you weren't using it.
Roughly 10 to 5 years ago, I had quite some fun with the pre-installed games on my older sister’s laptop which is running Windows Vista when visiting her. But I noticed performance issues even back then.
Vista was the OS on my first self-owned computer when I was in my early teens so I have a soft spot for its aesthetic touches (I've even made sure to change most of the system sounds to Vista's with every computer I've owned since, save for making the startup sound the Win95 one). It wasn't QUITE as bad as the horror stories of the time but even at that age I knew it wasn't up to par with XP on a functional level.
I honestly cannot remember having a negative experience with Vista. To the contrary, I feel Vista was a pretty competent operating system which was just battered by the negative hype train. Vista's UI was beautiful and quite honestly the best looking UI Microsoft has ever released. Windows 7's UI was similar thanks to Aero making it into 7 but didn't feel the same.
Spot on man. Aero theme, that greenish tint, the icons and the overall look is not surpassed even today. The best looking OS of all times
Vista had problems because of most common WinXP PC specs at 2005-2006 were 256-512 MB of RAM with single core procie (like AMD athlon and P4). The prebuilt AIO and laptop sure immediately bumps their laptop to 1-2GB, but Intel GMA back then truly sucks (eating 32-128 MB of RAM). It costs a lot. Most average home PC weren't prepared for almost 4x minimum spec jump.
My PC when vista was released was just 512MB DDR(1) with Pentium 4 2.8Ghz (+nvidia 6600). I think you can guess how inoperable my PC was when I tried force clean install Vista back then.
What do we learn from that?
Don't get people hyped Up with a Buch of promises you can't keep, or they'll be -surprise- quite disappointed.
@@0w3nn me neither
Saaaame. I used Vista back then and I feel it’s just fine like when I used XP.
Never installed vista, went straight from xp to 7 😎
Depending on your build, that probably saved you a lot of trouble! :)
@@nationsquid yee, but I made the mistake of going from 7 to 8. Then I went back to 7, but then went to 8.1 when that came. Then went back to 7 again. Then went 10, and yesterday my HDD died, RIP
@@nsawatchlistbait289 bruh
@@pacomatic9833 I know
@@nsawatchlistbait289 RIP
My biggest annoyance with Vista was that a simple Windows Update could go for hours, with no progress bar or details to know if the connection was broken or just working glacially slow.
when i was in elementary school i remember we had vista on the home desktop and i didnt have many issues with it, but when i got my first laptop from a family friend in about 2014 and it wouldnt upgrade past vista, its safe to say i remember a lot more bad than good. it was incredibly visually appealing, but thats all i can give it. it wouldnt even let me download/run a browser besides internet explorer for some reason, so as someone who was chronically online in middle/high school, that might make my memory of it a bit worse.
I personally really loved Vista. Admittedly, I did get it on a new PC after a few years of its release, but that just shows how much it can improve over time. I only ever had one big issue that was easily solved throughout the whole time I used the OS. Compare that to how I stumble across dozens of problems with Windows 10 seemingly every day, I'd say that my experience with Vista was much better than what other seemed to claim having.
I think the reason Windows 7 was so fondly remembered compared to Vista is because of two simple points. The hardware got better so the beautiful Aero theme didn't cause as big performance issues as before and also all the updates that Vista got during its life were packaged to 7, which made it much more stable than Vista on launch.
I miss the aero, it was so good to see
For me vista was really nice and I expected the bugs, but also how I commented many times on similar videos... Win98 got me PTSD, that windows deleted folders of my school projects at random due to size... I remember crying because my brother sold my win 95 :( to get that piece of s**t... after that I was the one with buying power due to everyone on the family hating win98.
windows 11 is out!
@@islacsilva854 You can still download the Aero. I mean, not the theme but the beautiful beautiful transparency.
Yea
"Mob Mentality"
I loved it 😂
I liked Vista too! Though, I can see where all the criticism for it came from as well. Thanks for watching! :)
@@Rishi-9073 that sucked
I remember when i was in middle school. My dad got us some at the time new computers, a desktop and a laptop. Both had Windows Vista on them, i used that laptop a lot and i never had any issues with Vista. A year or so later he got me my own laptop that had Windows 7 on it because of how often I was using his laptop.
My first laptop came with Vista and I loved it. It felt like such a huge step up from XP (which was the system I was most used to at the time, being the system of choice on my school's computers).
Looking back, yes, it was bloated. Yes, the UI caused the OS to run slow sometimes. But I never had issues with it.
7 was obviously the better system, which I upgraded to as soon as I could lol
XP was the ultimate gaming OS, Vista worked but you have to fight everything with backwards compatibility and work around a to get to work, XP was fast and lite.
I grew up on Vista and actually like it more than Windows 10 (which I find a bit too sleek and 2 dimensional).
I could definitely see what you mean by that! Thanks for watching! :)
Yeah, I hated the direction Microsoft went with Windows 8, but at least Windos 10 took a step back in the right direction. Still, Windows 7 was my favorite version (and Vista was basically a beta version for 7)
For an educated feline, windows 7 also has that UI AESTHETIC is orders of magnitudes better as a whole as an operating system in terms of usability and compatibility. It's time to admit that Vista is shits for the birds.
Finally someone that likes the old windows look
Vista alongside with 7 were extremely beautiful OS-s but I liked 7 better. I like Windows 10 too, but I've had far more problems with it than Win7 back in the day. I still have an old laptop running it, dual boot with win10, only the latter has internet access for security reasons. I need to get XP running on it too 👀
I remember when my family's Windows 98 machine bit the dust in early 2007, my mom saved up some money and got us a new computer, which came with Windows Vista. I didn't know at the time that Microsoft had created a new operating system that people did not like. When started up that Vista machine for the first time, we were blown away on what it could do. The Aero theme looked so futuristic and beautiful. We had that PC until 2011, when we finally all got our own computers running Windows 7. I miss Vista because it reminds me so much of my early high school years.
Same. Aero on Vista was gorgeous and of really made it feel like a modern and sleek upgrade to the XPs I saw at friends houses or the 2000s I saw in school. I really do miss it, Metro does not compare.
The purpose of OS is not to be beautiful, go outdoors and watch beautiful scenery if you want beauty, the purpose of OS is to have your programs function properly, XP and 7 succeeded at it, sluggish Vista failed at it. Idgaf about visual effects.
I remember having Vista on a desktop PC in 2008 (which we got rid of around 2017/2018) and it had its issues. Trying to game on it wasn't easy, which I saw with the game Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. I don't know if the issue was with Vista itself or from internal hardware issues, but I couldn't even load the game past the menu screen. Even when I played the original Splinter Cell on the OS, it would crash when I tried to use the Thermal Goggles part of the game (maybe that's due to issues with integrated graphics). Even when I tried to grab files off it right before we discarded the computer, it was insanely slow at that point to where it took quite a while to transfer the content I needed to an external drive. It's honestly an OS that I can live without after dealing with it for 10 years.
3:13 what's the software on the screen?
I don't remember having that many problems with Vista, except some compatibility issues. Other than that it was pretty, and definitely led to the much more stable modern windows we have today.
Windows Vista was The INFLUENCE of Microsoft's succes of today simply because Hardware manufacturers have decided that computers need better Hardware and that the current garbage they had at The time Was outdated and obsolete
2:53 I'm just glad that people don't have any issues with Vista's UI, i loved that UI, way back when I was using it.
I was actually blown away but the blurry window and title bar effect. The idea was eventually stolen by Apple.
The most brilliant feature that caught my eye was how the path in Explorer's address bar would elegantly switch from editable text to buttons. Wow!
@@IllusionSector huh? If anything Vista stole elements from Mac OS 10, which was at the time very colorful, glossy and shiny
@@TheLocalLt
I was referring specifically to the transparent blurry UI element (occasionally referred to as the shower door effect). Most notably in the OSX, you see it in the launchpad. It was nowhere to be found in the OSX back in the Vista days.
_which was at the time very colorful, glossy and shiny_ True, but Windows did not borrow any of that.
@@IllusionSector that guy is definetly an apple fan
when i was younger (now 23) we only had 2 OS in our household computer and it was XP and Vista. I vividly remember that I used Vista longer than xp. Also, in net cafes near our house, they use vista at that time. So, I always loved and cherished Vista because it has this nostalgic feeling to me.
The reason I didn't like Vista was because it was so slow, it took up much space and certain things took very long to load. I remember that circle that just kept spinning when you waited for something to load or to be finished.
Vista was "thrown over the wall" without sufficient collaboration with hardware manufacturers. So yes, it did objectively suck. It then got better over time. I remember. I was there.
You're a Vista Veteran
no, objective is incorrect when its sucking was conditional; if you had the right hardware Vista was amazing and could provide a far better experience than XP
The "Vista Ready" stickers put on machines that really couldn't run Vista was another factor. Also, OEMs early in the Vista era packed the computers with so much trial software that it even slowed down XP, let alone Vista which the computer could barely handle as is.
@@bojinglebells that would mean that vista was "subjectively good" not the other way around.
@@TheXboxReviewer yes, and I never stated that Vista was objectively good, just that it did not "objectively suck"
I've always had a bit of a nostalgic soft spot for Vista. I liked the aero theme and thought it looked really nice at the time, especially better than what XP had. I don't remember it being particularly slow, but I only started using Vista around or just after the release of Windows 7, and by then I think most of the problems had been ironed out.
Vista wasn't exactly slow on my admittedly high end machine, but it did have some serious problems with programs getting too much processor priority, and the task manager would refuse to close them (or do so only after great delay).
I used vista RTM for years on a mildly low end 2008 laptop, and I had an excellent experience; I'm pretty sure the problems were not ever in the vista software, but moreso in the 2007 hardware that simply wasn't compatible with vista (or had bad drivers).
@@Keldor314 If you have an Intel Haswell or newer gen CPU, you've fallen victim to the CPU timing bug
I got Vista in 2008 at the earliest (as that was when I got my own place and a new computer with it) and I *loved* it. It never had any of the problems that I heard anyone talk about, in that it ran fast and it never seemed to have a problem doing what I wanted it to do (no more than any other system I'd used anyway) - I'm even between it and XP on what my favorite system is (though it's probably XP as I may be able to pin point what I liked about it better.)
I realize that as it was 2008, it had probably been fixed by then, and I likely just missed the problems with it, but when I used it I honestly couldn't see why it was so hated, and even missed Windows 7, because I was perfectly happy to stay with Vista until I absolutely had to let go of it.
In fact, Vista was pretty much the last time, nostalgically or otherwise, where I even cared what system I was using - these days, I have to actually check what I have, and I'm not sure if anything about my current system really stands out to me in a nostalgic sense... I couldn't even tell you what my start up and shut down sounds sound like, yet when I heard Vista's on this video, I felt a fondness for it, as I'm sure I did back then. So yeah, I had a good time with Vista... I'm not sure just yet what it was specifically, but I did.
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I remember the day my parents got a new computer with Windows Vista. It was such a great memory because I was in the computer sunroom surrounded by a rainy afternoon. The background of the rainy Forrest was on the desktop. I was messing with all the plugins and so excited and having fun. Then. It started bogging down. BAD. I remember loving the aesthetic so much, and still do, which is why Windows 7 will always be my favorite. But for gaming I just went back to my own PC which had XP on it and only touched the Vista to watch CZcams and stuff. Even though it was slow because it was too advanced for the hardware of common households at the time, I still have good memories with the vibes I got from the aesthetic of Vista, and often miss them.
I was in college when vista was released, it took a minimum of 1GB of RAM to be usable and atleast a dual core processor.
These might seem trivial now, back then it would cost 3 months income of my Dad to purchase such a machine.
And games like NFS MW ran faster on XP, so it made no sense to me to use vista.
For a time this was (and continues to be when new Windows versions are released) true: the older version typically runs games that come out around the same time as the new one better because the developers haven't had much time to get used to the new quirks or take advantage of newer features. Same thing happens with console generations where you get a game released on both the newest and previous gen platforms, often the older version will be more stable, and may even look objectively better (though this is usually a very subjective comparison).
@@W1ldTangent When has this happened with video games? Next gen versions of games always have better graphics and FPS.
@@GSG-io8zp not exactly
Ports from gta with more fps will make unstable the game cuz the game is made for only 30fps
Also halo 2 from the master chief collection is a graphic mess,just a port from the old game to new gen consoles
@@LaloSalamancaGaming69 There hasn’t been any port of the 3 classic gta games that have had it’s frame rate unlocked apart from an option on PC? I’m a huge Halo fan and the Halo 2 remake is amazing.
@@W1ldTangent That is true, I also remember how they made dx10 exclusive to vista.
Vista is really nostalgic for me because it was on the first computer we had in our house when I was a kid. I never knew it was hated, it was just normal to me. I remember playing Purble Place, those games were the best back then!
I personally didn’t mind vista, however I was just a kid and as much as my childhood revolved around computers and technology, I don’t remember too much of the details
Vista wasn‘t bad, it was just too heavy for its time. Imagine an OS being released that recommends 32GB of RAM, 16 Cores and a 2TB SSD. It would be slow as hell on an average Office PC today, but blazingly fast with the hardware released in 10 years.
No… it was/is bad… and renaming it 7 and patching it, until people went from single-core systems to their Core2’s and Quads with 2 or more gigabytes of RAM was just a great way to disguise what an absolute resource hog Windows had become. The OS is merely a framework for running your applications. It’s not supposed to bring your system to its knees by itself. Chris Almighty, I still have nightmares about those Vista-ready laptops that took 30min to boot up and somehow the hard disk led would never turn off, even after you could already click around. Drop Ubuntu on any similarly spec’d machine, and it ran like a cat animal, without swapping.
Now Microsoft is torturing us with the completely flat and confusing Windows 8/10 UI and we all look back at clown-colored XP and bloated Vista Aero with rose colored glasses and longing, forgetting that those were already downgrades compared to the clean and well thought out Windows 95/NT4 explorer.
then its bad
vista was beautiful, as a kid I used to play on the OS over and over again, I played mahjong titans, chess titans, purple place, etc. It was heaven and I loved the effects and the cristaline theme. sincerely my favorite and best operating system in my opinion, along with XP, 7 and 98.
I love purple place, i used to play it on my grandmas laptop. I completely forgot about untill now.
@@aidanrehe3745 he forgor ☠️
@@LikeAChameleon what?
@@aidanrehe3745 it’s a meme. The reason why I said it is because you misspelled it the way the person who created the meme did.
@@LikeAChameleon oh i didn't even notice the typo lol
I was so fascinated with Windows Vista aesthetics while I was in high school that I forced our computer to look like it was running Windows Vista even though it was still running Windows XP. There was a program called Windows Vista Theme Pack that replaced all of the Windows XP UI, and it's fun to remember those times. Even though our computer was slow, I was quite pleased with the way it looked; the glass-like windows, the orb start button, the widgets, the icons; Vista's user interface was very stunning to me. Now that I'm an adult, I have a powerful PC running Windows 10, but Windows Vista will always hold a special place in my heart.
I used Vista for about 2 years from 2007 to 2009,its games made me happy in that time,and looks like a pretty big gem so i can watched the MovingDesktop under the windows and taskbar
I had a core2quad and 4gb ram back when I used vista for the first time. I remember it being buggy, and I was pissed I couldn’t find any of the settings but after sp1 it appeared to be stable and I learned to love it.
I personally loved Vista over XP; it had a lot of what I’ve always wanted since that OS; not as much trouble in certain aspects, well more in the realm of games, and just a nicer, cleaner OS in general. I personally enjoyed it, and hope to get back to it again.
I agree! I preferred Vista over XP at the time of its release. The search feature was the game changer for me. Thanks for watching! :)
Wish that Microsoft released Vista as Open Source to the community.
Every one knows the real Windows OS disasters were
Windows ME & Windows 8
But I would be honest , I believe I had used ME OS but I think due to reviews , I didn't use Win 8 ; I was repulsed by the Tile concept of Win8 and the irony is that in Win 10 I ended up prefering tile to traditional start menu 😂 how times change.
Windows 8 wasn't bad imo never had an issue with it
Windows 8 aint bad. Its still a reskinned win 7. Its just that barely anyone uses touch screen monitors when they overhauled the UI
@@stevenevetsky9760 yep the tile was a bit too much of a radical change back then for people who liked the traditional Programs mode/ layout .
But when you have to shell out a bomb to upgrade , then such minute things can be a game changer.
“Every one knows the real OS disasters were Windows 8”
but you never used it. you’re just repeating what some people say like a parrot. DUH.
Millenium was not bad as people write.
i remember having multiple ‘Vista’ themes on the XP-driven computer of my parents i used (my father really refused to deal with Vista), i was really into this ‘Aero’ thing. albeit i wasn’t really satisfied with any of these themes (‘skins’, as we’ve called them) as they lacked the nuances that made Vista so visually cool, like the windows’ opacity or shadows. i even used to have a Qtek that ran on Windows Mobile and i had a program which allowed to create the customized skins by yourself, so I made a “Vista” run on Windows Mobile (it was buggy as hell and crashed too often, erasing all of my efforts). my parents never installed Vista, they upgraded to Windows 7 when it became available
i always liked vista and used it for some time and found that really like you said it just came out too early need polishing and overall really was good i was happy when Microsoft brought out windows 7 i did wish some features had remained as i really loved the Multi media capabilities that Vista had when it worked lol as at the time you really didn’t have very good software options actually available it’s amazing the ability’s you had available if your computer could support it anyway i really enjoyed your video it was very accurate it was definitely difficult selling computers back then to people you really needed to know the software and the best hardware specifications or your customer would be upset The neat thing about those days though she had some real high end computers come out because of Vista and you’ve got a lot of use out of them so if you purchased one you were able to get your moneys worth as long as you got the right one ☝️
The Vista/7 sounds are the best ones ever
They are really good. the windows 10 sounds are kind of nice, too
95
But It can't beat the windows xp critical error and exclamation sounds
Nah Windows XP startup noise is legendary. Also the error noise
My favorite was the never ending disk defrag, and the moving backgrounds, which were really mp4 movies, eating up half of your system resources.
I installed RC candidates, and the final version. The problem was video card drivers, there simply wasn't any and crash central occurred. Also other generic drivers were absent meaning many functions just didn't work. Also XP got service pack 3 just prior which resolved a lot of the security issues. Heck I've still got a Vista disk maybe I'll give it a spin I did like the areo element.
The biggest issue I had with Vista was that you couldn't kill processes. The only account that could was SYSTEM and that didn't include you.
I bought all new equipment for it. They were all Vista certified. Went as high as I could go. Did a fresh install and proceeded to add all the stuff I wanted but second party apps didn't want to work. I'd start Firefox and nothing would happen. I'd try to start it again and it would say it's already running which it was if you looked at the Task Mangler. You couldn't kill it though. The only solution from Microsoft? Reboot. Sometimes that cleared the issue.
Until one night I had to reboot FIVE TIMES and it still wouldn't start. So I ripped Vista out and went back to XP.
By the time Windows 7 rolled out they had seemingly fixed most of these issues. The only problem was upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 without doing a fresh install caused a boatload of issues. Had to do a clean install and it worked fine from that point on.
Rule of thumb still exists: Never install a new Microsoft OS until the first service pack drops. And no, I'm not using Windows 11 until I know it works.
I never had any issues with Vista, honestly one of my favourite OS of all-time mainly for my child-hood, and so on. The fact that so many had issues, and I didn't, I count myself lucky; visually beautiful but excuted horribly.
I have very fond memories of Vista. The first computer that was actually mine came with Vista, an old HP AiO with a very early capacitive touchscreen. I do think most of the butthurt came from people using older hardware.
I went through the whole Windows Vista life cycle with it, installed all the beta versions of Windows 7 which was admittedly much better, but at official release of Win7 HP stopped supporting the display driver needed to run my touchscreen so I was left with lots of bluescreening after that.
My first experience with a computer was vista and it was incredibly slow and buggy. I remember my parents hating the computer but not replacing it until windows 8 was released because we didn’t have the money and didn’t see the need. I remember the computer would crash so often and take decades to load up a single program. I also have happy memories of me as a kid looking through all the programs it had when I was bored and being obsessed with this card maker app my parents downloaded when they first got it.
5:16 I think Windows 10's Notification Center was actually based upon smartphone GUIs and not a direct successor to Vista's Sidebar. Computer displays were starting to go widescreen at the time (for watching widescreen movies & video, I think) but it seemed awkward to browse websites or use Microsoft Word in widescreen. So they came up with the Sidebar to get some use out of that extra wide space. It had analog clock, weather, calendar, notes, and a whole bunch of 3rd-party gadgets that are not remotely part of Windows 10's Notification Center.
I still have this vintage memory of playing a game called tales of pirates back in 2007 on vista, best days of my life
Me and my friends were teens when it came out and completely missed the negative experiences at the time. We really wanted to replace our XP/2000 installations with Vista - we used our PCs a lot and Vista was a real conversation starter, like a new iPhone would be today. We even used many of those Vista Transformation Packs for XP which I think made our PCs run even worse than Vista itself. I still get why we liked it, when the Glass effect was enabled it looked pretty cool.
I eventually only got to use it for about a year until 7 came out and I got a free upgrade disc from Microsoft. It wasn't a big deal to me, because 7 was just more stable and felt like a mix of XP and Vista. 7's updated theme was similar but fits in the less-is-more design trend that's actually still going on today, Vista looks really dated now. I kept using 7 until 2019, since support ended in 2020. Windows 10 is actually still kind of like Vista's style but all the 3D styles are now replaced by flat colors. When I upgraded from Win95 to 2000 to XP (skipped a few), it always felt like a big upgrade in terms of looks/control panel functionality and everything. Vista and everything after that felt like a continuation of the same product/version. I think Windows is a finished project now which is why 10 is the final version.
Thanks for sharing your input! I think you make some very good points, and from what I have heard, Windows 10 is going to be the last version of Windows from Microsoft, and they're just going to keep updating it indefinitely. Although I heard a "big" Windows announcement is being made in late June of this year, so we may just be getting a whole new version of Windows soon, we'll just have to wait and see. Thank you for watching! :)
I might have to stop you right there, because Microsoft *_might_* be releasing Windows 11 in June 11.
@@lloyd26 I heard the rumors a few days after I made this comment, but it's pretty contradicting with what they previously stated. The plan was that Windows 10 was in fact the final version, with users never having to buy/get a new version and only receiving updates from now on. They're releasing new upgraded Windows 10 versions two times a year now and Windows 11 was never to come. But I guess we'll see. I hope that if they really changed their mind it's because they have lots of new features to add.
@@r0ckz welcome to the future and we all got to know Windows 10 will be ditched support for consumers on 2025 😒
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I found it attractive to look at. Unfortunately, on three occasions my system had a blue screen crash and required a reinstall from the recovery partition. I wasn’t very happy with that and moved to a competitor system which I have remained with
13:59 good plot twist 👏👏👏
I'm using Vista for 2-3 years in the past and never had problem with it. And I didn't even know people hating it so much. So, it's really just a bad perception of people at that time.
I'm so glad I was just about 9 y.o kid when Vista appear in my life so I've never faced or experienced any negativity while using it.
My parents bought a laptop with Vista in 2008, and we're used it to 2016, unfortunately a laptop just die at this time due mechanical problems.
It still my favorite OS so I love to customize my Win10 look like Vista.
I want to download a virtual machine and install Vista on it and embrace nostalgia...
And yes thank you for the video, I'm very enjoyed it
Windows Vista is like definitely in the top 3 of my favourite Windows releases, Microsoft should have spent more time on polishing it
I think so too! It definitely had the potential but it just wasn't used very well. Thanks for watching! :)
Well, they did eventually polish it! We know the polished version as "Windows 7". I don't remember any real ways in which Windows 7 wasn't just Vista, but working as it was supposed to all along.
@@Keldor314 Lmao no. The real polishing was SP2 and platform update.
I was 12 and I was extremely lucky (back then at least) to have my own computer. It had Vista on it, and I really liked it. Sure it was aided by the good hardware in it (my dad gifted me the PC, and he used it for gaming), but even so. I loved everything about it, especially the presentation and theming. The only thing I hated about it was the obnoxious security implementation.
I was like 11 when Vista came out and I mostly remember being stoked about the sidebar gadgets
You mean I can put a sticky note on my desktop? And the weather!?! And a puzzle!?!?
I also love the aesthetics of it, but that’s just nostalgia
In Greece we call them Windows "Svista" which means Windows "Uninstall them"
bruh
Vista is still my favorite looking OS ever. I remember how excited I was for it, but then seeing how poorly it performed on most computers I used it on. Later on with better hardware and service packs, it was great imo.
it’s weird cuz i remember for the longest time, my first PC had windows vista and was apparently the fastest computer in my house at the time… was kinda surprised to see years later that it got so much flack at the time of it’s release
I had the very unfortunate experience of moving from windows ME straight to Vista. The computers at my school had XP, but I never had it at home.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire