Few things strike fear
Or perhaps loathing
Into the hearts of PC enthusiasts
More than the words
Windows Vista
That operating system's notoriety,
has a buggy, slow, bloated mess
Reaches far and wide
Even to the land of the
Apple faithful
Vista was aboard.
Its successor, Windows 7,
adored, but was Vista's heart truly
evil, or simply misunderstood?
Pushed out into a world that wasn't ready?
Who can say ?
It is a terrible tale
But perhaps its telling may reveal new secrets
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So I was reading a post written by
and it inspired a fairly lively debate
In our weekly writers' meeting
Was Windows Vista
really that bad?
You ask a dozen people
You'll get a dozen different answers
But one thing we all agreed on though
Was that to answer the question fairly
We would have to get our hands on an ISO
And actually install it on the system
And we chose the 150$ gaming PC that Riley and I put together
Mostly because it's from 2007
The year that Windows Vista launched
And... How is it?
Well, surprisingly, it works pretty well.
System processes are snappy
And despite the outdated kind of
janky looking UI
It's, for better or for worse,
Windows
Running just fine. In fact,
It looks almost exactly like Windows 7
So, how is it different, then,
from Windows 7?
And what's so bad about it?
Well the answer requires some history
Development of Windows "Longhorn", actually named after
the Longhorn Saloon & Grill in Whistle, BC
Began in 2001
About which features to include
in the new operating system
And which ones to add to Windows XP
And Windows Server
Things got so complicated
That in 2004
This was also when Longhorn's product name was finalized
to Vista, with a tagline of clear
confident and connected
None of which had described Vista's development so far
Perhaps they were trying to ask the universe to throw them a freaking bone
There's actually a lot more I could say
about the development
But frankly we could make a whole video about that
So let's just leave it at, the launch was
delayed a few more times, bones were not thrown
And then finally, on January 30th 2007
Vista made its public debut
Including
the graphics intensive Aero UI
with translucency effects
and elements of the Windows back-end that had completely redone
So the hardware requirements were higher than probably anyone expected