welcome back to the adventure today we're talking about a conspiracy theory
that Windows Vista was designed to be slow any user that purchased a
low-to-mid end system pre-loaded with Windows Vista found the system
performance to be exceptionally slow the issue was significant enough that some
manufacturers offered a migration option to Windows XP
so why was Windows Vista so slow was Windows Vista so advanced that computers
of the time could not run it at an acceptable speed or is it simply
software bloat perhaps the reason is something more intentional for proper
context we'll need to look back to Windows XP XP was supposed to mean
experience the operating system was intended to be a continuously updated
platform much like what we are seeing with Windows 10 today which microsoft
has called the last version of Windows Windows XP was getting service packs
however it wasn't changing in a way that wanted a faster processor or more memory
as the operating system was going to be supported long term technology caught up
with the maximum Windows XP could support there was no incentive to buy
multi-core processors or more than four gigs of RAM because Windows XP could not
use it development for Windows Vista then known as long horn is generally
regarded to have been problematic Longhorn was originally going to be
released in 2003 and was planned to be a minor release the story goes Microsoft
used a naming convention that followed the intended roadmap for Windows in
British Columbia Canada there are two large mountains Whistler and Blackcomb
Longhorn is a bar and grill located in between the two mountains if you were to
travel from Whistler to Blackcomb you would pass long-horned similarly Windows
Vista was to be a minor release between Windows XP and Windows 7
however the Longhorn development team became overwhelmed by feature creep
features that were intended for what would become Windows 7 were being added
to the project plan for Longhorn circa 2004 development for Longhorn was reset
the new development began building from the win
Oh Server 2003 codebase and took roughly two years to complete the reset in 2004
was the point development turned from making the next version of Windows to
making future technology worth investing in processors that are being released in
2019 were designed and prototyped several years ago technology beyond what
Windows XP could support was being developed by hardware manufacturers in
2004 this would explain why Microsoft spent three years developing an
operating system with ambitious and innovative features then spending two
years developing what is now Windows Vista the target Hardware changed along
with the goal features became far less important computers that shipped with
Windows Vista oftentimes performed better running Windows XP that may seem
obvious because XP was over five years old by the time Vista launched and
surely whatever operating system came after XP would have higher system
requirements however systems that shipped with Windows Vista pre-service
Pack 1 also ran windows 7 better the reason for this is hardware
manufacturers had new products ready to launch but no market for them something
needed to push the old hardware into obsolescence and incentivize upgrading
to quad-core processors and building systems with more than 4 gigs of RAM
that thing was Windows Vista every company in the ecosystem stood to
benefit from the shift in hardware standards from the raw material
suppliers to hardware manufacturers and software developers even Apple would
benefit from the shift despite their systems not taking
advantage of the new hardware for a couple of years Apple actually played a
key role in the cover-up they provided the distraction at the Apple Worldwide
Developer Conference in 2006 Steve Jobs and Bertrand surly had some comparisons
to make between Mac OS and Vista the underlying theme of the presentation is
that Microsoft is just copying Apple Apple then launched an ad campaign that
would destroy vistas reputation their payout came in the form of growth
put another way some users switched from PC to Mac in the wake of vistas release
the history of Windows Vista may have been a folly and ineptitude or it may
have been a genius scheme to get customers to buy new hardware
unfortunately we may never know subscribe for more great videos thanks
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