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Windows Vista support is officially dead–how to stay protected?

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1 hour ago, leadeater said:

I used Windows 2000 Professional for so long, amazing OS. Only reason I went to XP was for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Pretty much the same for me, though I did switch to XP for a while before going to XP x64.

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11 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Software support.

 

Any program which uses Chromium or CEF (a surprisingly large amount TBH) are no longer supported on Windows Vista.

 

That means:

Uplay

Steam

Rockstar Social Club

Spotify

Origin

Discord

Google Chrome

Chromium Browser

 

and numerous other software are no longer supported. 

That's part of "If it fits my needs" If I don't need those, still no compelling reason to upgrade.

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9 hours ago, leadeater said:

I used Windows 2000 Professional for so long, amazing OS. Only reason I went to XP was for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

I think you and I are two of probably 6 people that used x64 back then.

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2 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

I think you and I are two of probably 6 people that used x64 back then.

Im one of those 6 people. It was a horrible OS. Slow as fuck and clunky as fuck. I upgraded to Win 7 a month after it was released. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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Just now, Donut417 said:

Im one of those 6 people. It was a horrible OS. Slow as fuck and clunky as fuck. I upgraded to Win 7 a month after it was released. 

I remember how bad it was, but that was the issue with XP x64. Adoption rate was very low at the time.

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reading about how bad vista was when to me it probably was the best Windows version i've ever used back when i had a 2006 intel iMac. It was so fast and fluid, used it till 2012 when i bought my current MBP

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15 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I remember how bad it was, but that was the issue with XP x64. Adoption rate was very low at the time.

The fucked up thing is MS didnt even try. XP x64 was Windows Server 2003 with the XP shell on top. I mean all the updates you got were for Windows Server 2003. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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