US-CERT alerts Windows Vista users that they need to upgrade

[Bcat00]

Guess i'm one of the few that really liked vista when it came out, oh well.

[Dabombinable]

4 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

I remember my Toshiba laptop only had 1GB of RAM. It frequently paged to the hard drive. 

It was the same with mine. Hence the downgrade to Windows XP. And the paging was especially painful on it as well since the 2005/2006 100GB HDD was slower than some sub 10GB HDD from the late 90's (it can barely attain 32MB/sec sequential reads, and 20MB/sec writes).

[Doobeedoo]

I remember I had it from release, was clunky first few months but later on it ran fine on 4GB machine. Even remember playing some 64 bit executable games.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

22 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

No new patches doesn't mean less security. It means no fixes for vulnerabilities discovered in the future. Assuming, of course, there's anyone left looking for new vulnerabilities.

The big problem here is that vulnerabilities occasionally affect all versions from Win10 to Vista and sometimes even XP.  With Win7 and Win10 being the main targets, there is always a chance that they find an exploit that happens to work on Vista too.

 

Here's 2 recent examples  :

July 2016 :

http://news.softpedia.com/news/vulnerability-exploitable-via-printer-protocols-affects-all-windows-versions-506245.shtml

All versions ever released

 

October 2016 :

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/29/atombombing-zero-day-windows-exploit/

All versions ever released

 

Vista goes EoL on April 11th, which is Patch Tuesday.  I assume they chose this date to give it one last patch.  If any such cross-platform exploit surfaces after that date, it won't be patched on Vista anymore. 

XP received one patch shortly after it went EoL, but that was a massive IE vulnerability and XP still had a 30% market share at that point (still around 9% nowadays apparently).  With Vista having a much smaller market share (under 1% now), it's not going to get the same treatment. 

 

 

[paradigm249]

isnt like all OS's risk of getting malware and other things since they were made?

[Vode]

Vista was a good OS. Ran it on a Q6600 / 3GB Ram Nvidia 6800 GT. No issues whatsoever.

 

Windows 7 was an improvement, yes, but not to the degree people make it out to be. Main point was the hardware cought up.

[Zodiark1593]

My first laptop came with a Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, and at least a gpu with required features. Vista ran quite well. Windows 7 wasn't a major change, but it did introduce some features that were useful at college, namely wifi Virtualization to share my network connection. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I still prefer the styling of Vista over 7.

[Guest Darth Revan]

I loved Vista simply because it had Speech Recognition. It was its best feature.

I mean just look how great it was:

 

[SansVarnic]

5 minutes ago, Darth Revan said:

I loved Vista simply because it had Speech Recognition. It was its best feature.

I mean just look how great it was:

<snip>

 

Speech recognition was pretty good, the funny thing about that video was the guy became frustrated and was not using the proper commands. The correct command is "Upper Case I" not "Capital I". Lol.

 

MS should not have dropped this function, good thing it came back with Cortana But keep the voice recognition lose Cortana.

[Dabombinable]

3 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

Speech recognition was pretty good, the funny thing about that video was the guy became frustrated and was not using the proper commands. The correct command is "Upper Case I" not "Capital I". Lol.

 

MS should not have dropped this function, good thing it came back with Cortana But keep the voice recognition lose Cortana.

One thing I noticed is that he was speaking too rapidly for the software to comprehend, but that could have been a limitation of the hardware (I wonder how well it'd work on a 4790K with 16GB RAM). BTW, Windows 7 does have it under ease of access. However, I don't have working onboard audio or a sound card to test it on this computer.

https://www.howtogeek.com/177539/how-to-get-started-with-speech-recognition-on-windows-7-or-8/

[SansVarnic]

1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

One thing I noticed is that he was speaking too rapidly for the software. However, that could have been a limitation of the hardware (I wonder how well it'd work on a 4790K with 16GB RAM).

Agreed, he was speaking a bit fast. As an experiment I should install vista on a new machine or via a virtual machine and test the speech recognition with today's hardware and see how responsive it is.. I have a feeling it would be pretty good.

[Dabombinable]

Just now, SansVarnic said:

Agreed, he was speaking a bit fast. As an experiment I should install vista on a new machine or via a virtual machine and test the speech recognition with today's hardware and see how responsive it is.. I have a feeling it would be pretty good.

If you have a copy of Windows 7 or 8 it should actually work in exactly the same manner.

[AlTech]

On ‎3‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 0:57 AM, PCGuy_5960 said:

5 million users???? WTF?

When I was last in france last year, SNCF had their sales people in train stations using Windows Vista on their PCs......

[michaelocarroll007]

On 3/18/2017 at 1:12 PM, djdwosk97 said:

Vista honestly wasn't inherently terrible. It was just released at a time when the average computer being sold wasn't capable enough to run it. 

Thats a big part of it IMO it required like 2gbs of ram+ to run decent and most computers Running xp had 512mb-1gb and wanted to upgrade there system. Or any one buying a laptop or desktop under like $800 got a system that didnt run the OS well enough  Though it had its weird quirks and problems it did feel like an attempt at advancement over XP.