Just because
Windows 7 is right around the corner doesn't mean Microsoft intends to immediately sweep Vista under the rug and forget about it. After some confusion around the 'nets today, a company spokesperson confirmed with
PC World that its policy is to back an OS for at least four years from launch, meaning January 2011 here, but also said it plans to cut ties and drop mainstream support for the three consumer models within three years, before April 2012. Despite the minimum, most Windows variants have seen longer lifecycles --
XP, for example, had mainstream support for eight years after launch. Business and Enterprise users will still receive security updates until April 2017. Sure, it's good to see people will still have the option for Vista further down the road, but we don't expect a lot of OEMs or consumers will be opting for it once
7 goes gold.
Read - Vista's fading support
Read - XP's support lifecycle
posted May 5th 2009 1:48AM
It's NT6.1 for compatibility, it's 7 otherwise - you aren't nerdy enough it seems to know that..
Zing!
I have been running Vista Ultimate for 7 months and I haven't had any crash or slowdown while running apps, it runs pretty smoothly. In fact I really like Vista, of course Windows 7 looks pretty great.
I Think this is going to be the fastest product to reach end-of-life in Microsoft's history.
will we be able to downgrade from 7 vista then?
why would u wanna downgrade from 7 to vista? it's like downgrading from "i can't it's not butter" to just regular butter. you'll taste the butter, but you'll be leaner!
im asking, will we get a partial refund on vista ! especially for twats like me that paid nearly 150 Euro for a license recently.
@TeddyLikesComputahs!
That would be a good analogy if "I can't belive it's not butter" tasted anything like butter. And yes, I am slightly fatter for it but it's worth it.
Back on topic: Vista blows, hard. I cannot put it any more simply. Currently running Windows 7 RC1 as my primary partition in favour the OEM copy of Vista that came with my laptop. They should offer everyone free upgrades and send them a fruit basket as an apology for fooling them into spending thier hard earned cash on such an under developed OS.
its just not OK to charge close to 150 euros for an OS that will get discontinued in 2 or 3 years.Im shocked to read this.
Then you have no grasp of business.
'Then you have no grasp of business.'
He said it's not OK, which seems fair enough. Not I don't understand how they can.
at leats it's not freezing
An upgrade from Vishitsa to 7 should be free (or at least a minimal amount).
Cmon MS you have now acknowedged its broken and needs to be discontinued.
Why?
Because no one cares about Vista?
They just need to drop Vista as soon as 7 goes gold (or at least a few months after).
That really doesn't take into consideration the millions of people who have Vista now does it?
I really like Vista. I don't care what people say. It makes me work faster than I do on an XP computer + it looks really nice too, which is always a plus.
Wow, MS is dropping mainstream support for Vista in a hurry. 2012 is good though, I will need a new computer by that time.
Here's a non-whiny question:
What's the upgrade path from Vista to Windows 7, anyway? How much cash does MS expect me to pony up to move to Windows 7 if I already paid for Windows Vista Home Premium?
Because I don't like the idea that I'll be expected to pay another $100 for what is essentially a bigger service pack. I've used Windows 7, and I don't see too many differences from Vista, except that it's a bit more stable than Vista without SP1, and has some interface tweaks.
I'm on a MacBook, and I've been running Vista Home Premium for a while now-- I haven't been on the OS X side of things lately, either, because I think Vista runs great on the MacBook (It gets a 5.0 Windows Experience Index rating... Most PC laptops only get about a 3.8 WEI rating.)
I liked Windows 7... But I'm not paying a lot for an upgrade. I already paid for Vista this year, and I'm not pleased with the idea of being on the hook for another big OS price tag.
I'm gonna give win7 RC1 a try. I'm hoping it's "Vista - Fixed Edition"..
I hated Vista (pre-SP1) when I first got it. My biggest gripes with it being:
1. Being interrupted by UAC prompts and tray applet ballons when I'm trying to work.
2. File copy was broken. Vista ETC'd that copying my 40gb mp3 collection, from one drive to another, would take days to complete. I ended up FTP'ing the files to my linux box and back in under a hour. WTF? (and yes, my drivers where current..) SP1 fixed whatever that issue was.
3. Too many background services eating up memory and creating disk I/O. I'm OCD about my cars and computers. If the PC is sitting idle at the desktop and the hard drive starts churning, it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. I'm thinking "WTF.. virii?" and I have to crank up process explorer/monitor and wireshark and play CSI vista edition. Needless to say, I despise search indexer and turned it off. I'm organized and don't need MS's help finding stuff (except where they hid the TCP/IP settings and add/remove programs in the control panel..)
Anyways.. keeping my fingers crossed for win7. If it doesn't work out then I'm going back to either nlite'd winxp or vlite'd vista.
Wow it seems like the early Vista adopters got pwned!
i dont know why everyone hates vista. since i got it, i only ever had 1 BSOD, and that was caused by hardware failer.
sure it boots realy slow compared to xp, but once it's booted it runs fine.
Im in the middle of building a new gaming machine (just the graphics card's left) and with this news i will most likley install windows 7 on it.
Because of the longer support for it of course.
and to add.
I only put those certain words in caps because i wasn't sure if html would work. If i had an option to bold the word I would have, instead of putting it caps.
Once Windows 7 is out, Vista will be forgotten soon anyway. I have tested the beta and just installed Windows 7 RC, and it runs a lot better than Vista already!