Thus depending on how you count, Microsoft has produced six editions of Vista, or eleven if you count the five bit editions separately. Because of legal wrangling over Vista in Europe and Korea, Microsoft produced at least two extra beta versions, these were denoted by the N for example: Windows Vista Business N.
My information is that as of January , the N version has been abandoned, all countries will have the same 6 Editions. One indirect reference in this Oct 13th press release indicated that there was now no problem with Windows Media Center either in Europe or in Korea. Windows Vista Ultimate ………. I would not have predicted so many people would have bought the Vista Ultimate Edition. Microsoft has made a good choice of name for their flagship version of Vista — Ultimate.
I think of the Ultimate edition as a direct successor to XP Professional. As the name implies, Ultimate combines all the features found in the home Premium with those found in the Business enterprise.
See much more about the Vista Ultimate Edition. The Business Enterprise version also has Unix and multi language support. Regular business edition. Similar to the basic Vista version, but with the ability to join a domain.
This gave them ample time to iron out their issues. Meanwhile, the hardware problems and the system requirements slid down. After three years, it all looks good. Everyone's in love with Windows 7. This only shows that it all comes down to perception. Technology is just a sideshow. For that matter, most people have no idea what an operating system is - and most believe it sits in their monitor or something, so it's all right.
Basically, the only two things that Windows 7 has that really matter are bit support and DirectX whatever. With a little more polish to its bit version and backporting of newer versions of DirectX, Windows XP would need no replacement for generations. And it is still the best overall Windows release available. Microsoft will have to murder it first. Forget Apple, forget Linux. Windows 7 success so far means one thing: Windows Vista will remain embedded in the computing history as the best benign digital subterfuge act.
That would be all for today. You may disagree, but the plain fact is, Windows Vista was the softening blow that made everyone ready for Windows 7, an elaborate service pack for Microsoft's least liked and least popular release. Taking into account all the little factors, like the three year drought, the ridicule that Vista suffered and then the high praise that lavished Windows 7, Vista has all the ingredients of the best operating system ever.
It's a comeback that would surpass even the highly unlikely return of Elvis Presley from his home planet. You'd better get used to the sickly baby-blue theme and blurred interface, because that's what you're going to be seeing for a long, long time. That damn OS made it run like arse. Took forever to boot, or do anything really, even with all the swishy nonsense turned off. I'm still mad at Vista like 12 years later. Morgan: Like Jody, my first laptop ever came with Vista.
I remember staring at the little clock widget on my desktop while I waited seconds for Minecraft to open. I do not recommend trying to game on a bottom-of-the-line Dell laptop running Vista. Evan: It's inseparable from the darkness and suffering of Games for Windows Live, for me.
GfWL came a year later, in I'd peg it as one of the lowest points in PC gaming's history—Microsoft at its least-competent as a steward for the platform, and at its most meddlesome. Never again. Wes : I was somewhat obsessed with the glassy "Aero" aesthetic of Windows Vista and its glossy take on the taskbar and Start button.
It looked so high tech at the time because, whoa, transparency! I definitely installed a Windows XP skin to mimic Vista's aesthetic, but I held out from actually using the OS for awhile, because it had some fairly heavy system requirements at the time.
One of my friends upgraded just to play Halo 2 for PC, which was exclusive to Vista. It wasn't worth it. Tyler: Like Wes, I was really into the look here. I'd always loved the idea of having little widgets on my desktop, even though I did not then and have never needed a larger clock sitting on the desktop, which I never look at. I guess I just wanted my PC to feel like a control center for, I don't know, someone important.
In the early days, Windows was not popular. Or particularly good. The Macintosh OS was far more robust, and Windows only saw limited use with versions 1. Windows 3. Up until that point, PC users could do some things in Windows, but still had to switch over to the DOS prompt to run many applications. And Windows 3. You could do more than one thing at a time thanks to smarter memory management!
It had Solitaire! This was the point where Windows crossed the threshold from being a kinda-useful add-on to DOS, to being a better, easier way for most people to do things on their computer.
Wes: Yes, youngling, but like most other '90s kids I feel like the OS practically didn't exist until Windows 3. Every computer I used in my early childhood, except the school computer lab Macs, ran Windows 3.
Shout out to Norton Commander for being the first software I learned how to use. Was the Start menu the biggest advancement in computer UI after the clickable icon? Windows 95 really did feel like a quantum leap in how we used our computers, complex and new enough that it needed a lengthy video from the hottest sitcom stars around to explain how it worked.
So much of what Microsoft introduced in Windows 95 is still key to our PCs today. We still use a start menu, taskbar, and system tray in mostly the same way; those features have proven resilient even to Microsoft itself trying to replace them.
Windows 95 set a precedent for compatibility that later versions of Windows would mostly follow, running on top of DOS and still supporting bit applications while being built for a bit future. And people loved it. Windows 95's adoption was tremendous. Windows 95 certainly had its flaws and was prone to crashing, but that was the price of its innovation. In influence, it's probably the most important version of Windows ever made.
Yet it's outranked here by some of its successors because they show how quickly technology evolved from '; they simply did what Windows 95 did, but better. Shaun: All I remember is my Uncle Bill being extremely angry about Windows 95 for some reason that was inexplicable to me at the time. Evan: Vivid memory of seeing the Start button for the first time on a desktop in my uncle's basement and being afraid to push it. I thought it was some kind of ignition.
I was Chris : I remember the commercial about the Start button. It was a button, and they made a commercial for it using a Rolling Stones song about being horny. I wonder if Bill Gates knew it was a song about being horny. Rich: The first 'modern' OS I used.
Before this it was commands and tape loaders. I know Windows was 'old' by this point but it was new to me, and I still remember the amazement at the idea of Windows itself. Wes: I played Tomb Raider on Windows 95, and remember learning to hate the new Windows key on the keyboard.
One accidental press would crash the game. Now it's one of the best keys, though. By the time Windows 98 arrived, Microsoft had introduced Internet Explorer and evolved it to version 4.
Back in '95 Microsoft was just getting an inkling that the internet might really be a thing , but it couldn't finish Internet Explorer in time to ship it with the initial launch of Windows By it was a core part of the operating system later the impetus for a huge antitrust lawsuit , and Windows 98 was overall better designed for internet connectivity.
Windows 98 looked pretty much the same, but introduced some important features like the Windows Driver Module and better USB support that would become more popular in its successors.
Looking back, Windows 98 is the predecessor to Windows 10's meatiest seasonal updates, or the tick-tock cadence of Vista-to-7 and 8-to It wasn't groundbreaking, but it made key upgrades that kept the OS competitive and compatible with the latest hardware during times of rapid change.
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