Windows Vista tribute thread

>father-in-law still bitches about getting kiked on his dell that came with vista

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Even the moe antrhopomorphization was shit

Intel is responsible for Vista failing. had the Pentium 4 been good, there wouldn't have been performance problems.

>>59804241
vista was a hdd hog. if SSDs were popular back then vista would've been an ok OS.

Vista was a good OS, only normalfags hate on it due to their lack of self thought.

>>59804384
It was meh when it came out and had several bugs, they were fixed with the service pack or even before
Now you can spot retards when they are telling you how bad vista or Me were

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>>59803856
Our dear Vista dies officially in 3 days when Micro$oft drops support permanently.

Am I the only one that loved Vista? I still think its design is superior to 7, 8.1, and obviously 10. The overall design theme with the taskbar and titlebar in full screen programs really blended well. Much better than Fisher Price XP and the retardation that is 8 and 10.

Thanks, Vista. RIP 2007-2017

>>59803856
>install vista on a old piece of shit
>waaaaaaaaaaah it's Microsoft's fault

>>59804374
Vista also had a pretty good UI, considered by some even revolutionary, had the GPUs been good at the time...

>>59804892
This. Vista did everything 7 could and was easier to pirate.

>>59804700
>Am I the only one that loved Vista?
Of course not, Vista's the best remotely modern Windows version.

>>59803856
This UI is infinitely sexier than metro bullshit and flat colors.

every comment so far has been satirical right?

>>59804939
Nope

>>59804939
t. /v/tard

>>59804384
i hated vista when it came out because they installed it on computers that were close to minimum spec

this was common place strategy and it sucked

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>>59804939

They stole a bunch of shit from tiger because tiger was a decade ahead of XP but it was a fine operating system. It only has a bad rep because retards trying running it with like 256mb ddr2 and a p4 at 2ghz. It's okay when people bitch about it though because you know they got sold a shit computer at one point in their lives which makes them worse than the gays

Is vista still an ok os for everyday use?

>>59805046
It's basically Windows 7 with a different look, but in a few days you will lose security updates.

>>59805046
pretty much even though there's a few programs that wont run <7

>>59804218
She looks like she has down syndrome. Perfect for Vista

>>59804700
10 at least brought back the black taskbar. I hated that color shit in 7 and 8.

>>59805090
But if anything it'd be perfect for Windows 10

who /still on xp/ here?

>>59804374
We're talking 2006-2007. SSDs only existed as a concept back then.

That was the problem with Vista. Nothing used AMD and Intel was just getting around to stop fucking with NetBurst. Prebuilts were all RAM starved because XP didn't really need much. HDDs were slow as shit. And onboard was absolute garbage, which didn't play well when Vista used all sorts of composting. This is all in addition to the other problems Vista had, like being buggy and breaking driver support for damn near everything anyone owned.

You can't just say "If people had hardware that didn't exist then Vista would have been great!" Vista would have also been great if it wasn't unoptimized Pajeetware, like all the other iterations of Windows that came after it.

>>59805101
idk. The way that Vista changed the title bar to a nice dark blue/gray color when you maximized a window was awesome, IMO. I didn't care for AERO transparency in Windows 7 that much since they splashed transparency even in the title bar in 7. And 8.1 and 10 are horrible.

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>>59805168

>>59805132
POSReady 2009 reporting in

>>59805219
Ayy nice, I'm using the same.

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A E S T H E T I C

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>>59805609
I miss early 2000s windows messenger

>>59805609
Brings me back to a weird time. Kinda miss it.

I fucking loved it!

Great OS!

Now sure, when it was first released, I noticed a couple problems.

But you know, after the 1st service pack and then the 2nd... Shit was great!

I still run Vista

Come at me

"This is just a tribute"

>>59803856
Looks sexy.

>>59805208
>having to read an API/ help document written by someone who speaks english as a second language and doesn't know the subject matter

now you get a Stack Overflow thread explaining that you can't do it and will have to install shitty software

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Windows Vista and KDE v4.X are god tier.

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>>59803856
I used Vista until 2011, when I finally installed Windows 7 since I bought a new PC. Tbh I never had any problem with it. The design was by far the best Microsoft has ever done on a Windows and I didn't have any driver/optimization problems.

Windows 7 was far more unstable for me than Vista.

>>59803856
they were brave trying to introduce that slick, glassy GUI
too bad the barbarians didn't appreciate it

respect vista team

>>59807281
Damn, mix Vista and flat UI and it will be god tier.

>>59807285
ITP things that never happened

>>59805609
>Windows 8.1
Chug bleach

>>59807299
>someone liked Vista and didn't have problems with it
>hurr thengz dat nevr hapund vesta iz shiet

That's how you sound. In my opinion Vista was a good Windows.

I had a Vista laptop with Core Duo. To begin with it had lots of issues(I seem to recall it freezing whenever connected to Wifi, for instance), but SP1 fixed most of those. After that it was pretty good.

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>>59803856
My first PC (laptop) had Vista. 7 is a better OS, and better looking.

>>59803856
>tfw used Vista for 4 years because my mom wouldn't let me upgrade """family""" pc (I used it 90% of the time, since she was just using it for checking emails and browsing facebook), to Windows 7 because she thought I would break stuff.
I developed kind of a Love/Hate relationship with it.

Everyone on /g/ hated Vista and praised XP back when it came out. I installed Vista two years later in 2009 and it wasn't that bad.

Vista got it's bad rep, because at the time it came out, average PC couldn't run it properly.

Vista is good and the best os from MS, it's just normies didn't get it in 2006. So MS released it again in 2009 and now it's the m'best os

>>59807931
>Everyone on /g/ hated Vista and praised XP back when it came out. I installed Vista two years later in 2009 and it wasn't that bad.
That's because when it came out, Vista was terrible. See >>59807323

>>59807931
Honestly the biggest problem we had with Vista, aside from the terrible performance at the beginning, was the whole nagging people everytime they decided to open any fucking file on their own. Win7 fixed UAC. I liked Vista, it's just it was fairly buggy, a bit too flashy for cheap computers as well... customization went out the window, there was this driver signature nonsense and the transition from 32 to 64 bit was a bit painful back then.

Let's be honest though, everytime a new MS OS comes out it's a piece of shit and it requires many updates before it's perhaps as usable as the previous version everyone loved. I use Windows 8.1 right now and I can say that 8 really felt unusable at first, while right now for me it seems really stable, still up to date for most tasks and honestly looks nicer than Windows 10. But I'm really sure that (aside from the botnet business) windows 10 will get that big update that will turn it into another Windows 7 SP1, and another Windows XP SP3, and another Windows 98SE. Basically a flawed OS that you can still rely on because you know where it hurts and you can handle it daily.

>>59808015
> windows 10 will get that big update that will turn it into another Windows 7 SP1
Well, Windows 10 at release was a pile of shit and 2016 release have a few bugs (for me it's AMD HDMI audio sometimes disables when I turn off the TV and stays disabled when I turn it back on), but otherwise it's solid if you don't pay attention to UI. At least shortcuts are same.

I worked at a small computer shop in early 2007, right after Vista was released. What a goddamn mess it was.

We had several prebuilt models available you could choose from and we also made fully custom builds if the prebuilds didn't have what you wanted. Vista of course had garbage driver support in the early days. Our prebuilds had parts we chose carefully so that they were compatible with XP and Vista. But because Vista was the newest and the "best", of course people wanted it. We tested it every day with various hardware and we knew what it worked with and every time a customer wanted something that didn't work with Vista, we warned them. Did they listen to us? Of course not *. Then they blamed us because their shitty USB TV capture stick didn't work in Vista.

Some customers said they only need 1 GB of RAM. We told them 1 GB was way too small for anything Vista-related. "But the box says it's enough, so that's all I'm paying you for!". Fine, have it your way then.

There were some cheap mobos that didn't have working sound in Vista. What did people buy from us? Those fucking mobos. One day our stock of those garbage boards just "disappeared" because our boss got tired of the complaints.

Then there's this one time we went through six different mobos to find the one combination of hardware and software where *everything* worked. All because of Vista.

Vista's finally going away? Good.

*) okay, sometimes they did and were actually reasonable, so we secretly gave them small discounts.

>>59808064
It still needs some polish but I'm fairly sure by 2018/19 it will be rock solid. However by then I expect them to show a new version (I know they said it would be the last one, I just don't think it will)

Vista was shit, you can't copy more than 10 files at a time without the whole system freezing up. This was with 4GB of ram. Awful.

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>>59805609
>those transparencies

And then the flat ''''design'''' cancer ruined everything.

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>>59803856
Praise Allchin.

>>59808219
Think about how much better we could do that aesthetic with modern hardware and high DPI displays. But nooooooooooo. Gotta be flat.

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>>59808106
Come on, anon, at least post some actual Longhorn.

>TFW am using windows 7 with a vista skin
its best of both

>>59808428
How's that WinFS going for you?

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>>59808428

This is the hottest concept for Longhorn that was ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y

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Nothing has changed since then.

>>59808452
About as you'd expect. Buggy and soft-of working at best, although the performance hit isn't as noticeable as I remember.
>>59808485
I seem to recall having one or two of the director demos that were using this style. I'll see if I can dig them up.

>>59808559

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVvtzkpyRTg

This is absolutely remarkable. This demo shows the juice of Longhorn.

Modern OSes should look like this. Clean as fuck man. Those transitions, everything.

>>59808611

also linux is a copycat

This was shown back in 2003.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7wFNwQm_4

>>59808611
That looks like a target render to me, not an actual UI demo.

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>>59808559
Nope, unfortunately the director demos I have are all either older or post-reset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista

>Extended support ends on 11 April 2017

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD

also guys do you know if we can modify or change different animation styles in windows 8?

Ah yes, the most aesthetic Windows ever created.
Man, I wish AMD released the RX480 drivers for Vista

Vistas Aero is best Aero

https://youtu.be/c1ehJHWpfSs

>>59807311
Ok

What's a decent place to grab a Vista ISO? I feel like setting up a VM of it.