Was Windows Vista THAT bad?

actually i really liked vista... never had problem with it as i have with windows 10

Go to work idiot

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I disabled Windows 7 translucency, it eats up CPU usage. Automatic Updates was an awful mandatory addition.

I really do like the name VISTA... i like it more than a plain number honestly :)

Windows ME mention genuinely gave me chills. Now that OS was something

oh yeah and me i am still rockin that win7 :)

Vista and 7 are the same product .. in 2007 the hardware was too poor for vista(and 7) .. and all hardware producers delayed vista 64 drivers... Vista 64 SP2 is Windows 7 sp0... Same thing was Windows 8... Windows 8 is what NOW users want from Windows 10.... No Cortana - No useless things - No forced updates - No Spy - no edge.... Windows 8.1 is the best OS right now... On recent hardware is very very very fast and everything work's on It.

do you remember Windows 2000? Windows Millenium?

my pc is still running windows 7 and yea it's great

i really liked Vista

Bad?
It's one of the very best, possibly second after Windows 98SE. Vista and XP didn't have pure DOS, but could handle it very well in the vast majority of cases. 98SE takes the prize largely thanks to pure DOS with DVD support.

I'm still using it.

I had forgotten about Windows ME (my first Windows OS). Thanks for reminding me of that horror.

8:09 are you shitting me? vista could do that

the real question is: IS WINDOWS STILL THAT BAD ? -> YES
Linux Master Race ... #REPRESENT

plot twist.. windows 7, windows 8, windows 8.1, and windows 10 are just iterations of vista. the issues with vista was largely releasing when the bulk of hardware was XP era and the majority of hardware in the world plus hardware drivers for the vista ready hardware that did exist were not ready for it.

awesome :D

Millenium was worst.

In 2009 i bought a new dell inspiron 545 which is still running to this day. It came with vista 64. And 6 months later... Win7update. Was vista that bad? Not really.. But i couldnt run some games.. Especially spellforce. Win7 solved that.
Vista64 seemed stable... At least for me. There was only so far i could upgrade the computer but it ran well with both os at the time. Vista32 was the buggy one.

I used Vista Ultimate 32 bit for years, once you disable UAC and have it accept more than 4GB of RAM it was perfect, never had a problems with it

I had Vista on a Dell inspiron 1501 laptop and I didn’t have any issues with it. It had plenty RAM and dedicated graphics though. I encountered many computers sold packaged with Vista that should never have been. Big performance increases if you disabled Aero.

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I actually had no real issues with Windows Vista back in the day. The only thing I really didn't like was the Widget stuff. It looked and felt awful even for 2007 standards. But I didn't have to use that so it wasn't a problem. Windows Vista was fine for what it was. Never saw it as a particularly bad OS. When I think about a bad Windows OS, *Windows ME* comes to mind. Random crashes ALL the freakin time.

Wait...can it run Crysis...?

I like the style of 7 but without vista I wouldnt know

Long horn LEG HORN hahahaahahhahaahahah get it ? XD

I loved Vista. I neeeded it to play Bioshock with DX10

To be honest I think Windows 8' launch has easily overshadowed Windows Vista where user dislike is concerned.

For me Windows 7 is the best

Superfetch (preloading apps in ram), I always disable that crap service

When you do all the updates actually Vista worked welll

I am watching this on a old dell laptop with 1 gig hard drive and 512 ram and a 14 inch screen It has windows vista ultimate and it works fine even at 1080 p

I loved the Windows Vista UI :>

Them bubbles made me shed Manly Tears of Nostalgia.

Vista was never bad. The problem is people tried to run it on compatible hardware, not capable hardware. There is a very huge difference. Just because the hardware could run Vista never meant it would run it well. Vista was a bit ahead of its time. By the time 7 came out people have capable hardware for the most part and often tried to use that as an example of 7 being better, and, while it was better it was not due to the OS per se but the hardware the OS ran on. Sure 7 was a better experience by UI standards but other than that it really wasn't much if at all better than Vista. People just didn't understand, and still try to ignore these facts and push their opinion as the only factor involved.

Windows Vista can't touch a candle to the launch of Windows ME... but I'm guessing most viewers of this channel aren't old enough to remember that fiasco (and lucky you!).

I was a beta tester yes!! It was necessary but bad!!

Windows millennium was the worst MS OS.

people said its bad cuz school pc's used it

Yes.

My personal theory is Microsoft is sharing the development costs of the next gen operating system with their customers, half way through the development. Also the customers do a paid beta testing of the next os. I was using Win98SE back in the day and was quite happy with it. The millenium was released. We bought and used it for some time and reported the bugs to microsoft. After having us beta testing for sometime, microsoft released winXP which was great and was built on the eXPerience gained from millenium. Then i had to buy a new computer which came with Vista that had problems. So we beta tested that. Which led to 7 and blablabla. You know the story.
Win95 : Good
Win98 : Bad
Win98SE : Good
Win Millenium : Bad
WinXP: Good
Win Vista: Bad
Win 7: Good
Win 8: Bad
Win 8.1: Good
Win 10: Well, i switched to MacOs so i should not really comment. But i hear good things.

I loved it bought the Ultimate 64 edition, which supported the apps and drivers of xp probably why I did not experience the incompatibility software and hardware issues, how ever the constant pop up security permissions was quite annoying every little click here or there, open anything and you had to give permission or confirm what you just clicked on!! }:( how ever when you turned this function OFFF!!!!!!!! it was a very nice system!!!! Halo's and Angels :) :) before that the gremlins were all over your system

Vista was awfull but so is Windows 10.1

Windows ME and Windows 8 were WAY worse

Vista was not even bad Your computer was just bad

Yes, yes it was.

Well, MS is well known by launching crappy OS, followed by good OS, followed by crappy OS, followed by good OS.... it is just their business plan... they release a entirelly buggy, empty full of flws system, collect the gigantic amount of error logs from users that misleaded bought or were forced to use their crappy OS, work over it and release a good OS with all the problems solved, and than sell it again....
just listing:
Windows 3.1 - bad
Windows 3.11 - Good
Windows 95 - Crappy
Windows 98 - good
Windows Millenium - damn bad
Windows XP - very good
Windows Vista - oh my god...
Windows 7 - damn good
Windows 8 - so bad that they kinda made new early patch to 8.1 that was still pretty damn bad...
Windows 10 - well, windows 8 and 8.1 were so bad that they were so ashame that they gave it for free for those who had windows 8... And it is okish...
But the best Windows move so far wa putting Linux mini kernel inside of it... now we are talking... no more cmd nor Putty nor whatever necessary to do actual work...

i liked xp that much that i upgrade from xp to 8 in 2013 XD

Btw vista was an update for win7 but never became popular

I have 8.1 and it cant run anything.super slow.I miss my old computer awesome for gaming

It wasn't bad. It was great, as great as the Zune.

I tried almost all OS and Ms Dos made by Microsoft :) For me,the best was: Win98 , XP, 7. The worst: Vista, WinMe , 8.1 , 10.

haha yo man

It's almost 2019, why are so many people still using closed source (proprietary) software???

It was an unmitigated disaster.

"Windows Vista
CAN'T EVEN PLAY SOLITAIRE!!!"

What's the windows product logo that has like the four tiles but they're all different sizes? Is it office? I remember seeing it on a Vista machine when I was a kid.

This is weird but xp is still my favorite

Compared with Windows 10... Vista was amazing. Compared with any other version of Windows.. it wasn't all that good.

Purble Place gang

Worst OS ever? Try Windows Me.

It was shit!!!!

ms dx12 run game in linux ( pre beta) :/

OEMs ruined Vista. Yes it was more hardware intensive but graphically it's a good looking UI. 7 polished everything up and made Aero what it was supposed to be. I'm still on 7 mainly for the UI since it looks so great compared to boring 8 and 10.

Vista and windows 8 were crap, full of bugs. Windows millennium was also a pile of crap.

whats windows 7 and 10 im still on vista

Vista was god awful at launch and not bad at all a year later or so.

I liked the gadgets in windows 7

i liked vista and didn't really notice an improvement upon going to windows 7 except that vista was far more blue screen prone than windows 7. vista would have a blue screen about once every two months of gaming. windows 7 would have a blue screen about once every 6 months.

Finally someone who said the truth about Vista... (Even tho i'm more of an XP user)

I had got a blue screen while installing release version of Vista and it was impossible to install it until they updated it.

I switched an old Vista machine to SSD. That was enough to make it run ok fast. Then Microsoft dropped support. Sad. It was stable and looked good. Btw WinME was also misunderstood. It dealt with ACPI much better than Win98SE.

I had vista64 from the first version.I 'v just built a pc to use to my work and games, with Athlon 64 (that pc, upgraded to 4600+ dual core and with hd 4870 1gb ddr5 lasted many-many years) and it was brilliant. I never had a problem with vista64 and in fact i did not any format in all its "life" !!!! ( with windows xp i did one format every 2-3 months.... :P)

Regarding RAM consumption: Yes, Vista preloaded data from disk to RAM. But it does not show up as memory consumed. It shows in the "Cached" part, but it counts as free mem.
The main reason Vista used so much RAM and was so slow is that it duplicated GDI objects (what runs the UI) on both system RAM and GPU RAM. While developing 7, MS engineers discovered there were little use cases for having the objects twice on RAM and GPU RAM; and decided to ditch the system RAM copy.
While a few applications were negatively affected by this decision, the overwhelming majority of apps didn't notice it and this resulted in much lower memory consumption and overall OS responsiveness.
If you're interested, google "Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance" for more info about this subject.

hasta la vista baby

The only good thing I can say about Windows Vista is that at least it wasn't Windows ME.
Windows 8 wasn't nearly as bad by comparison, but the launch was well and truly botched, and it's a bit clunky. At least Win10 is usable and a clear update on Win7 on the hardware compatibility side.

7:41 where's the link?

YO

Epic intro, BUT PLEASE ENABLE SUBTITLES

Had Vista and didn't mind it at all. Not nearly as bad as going from Dos 6.22 to Windows 95. Games and apps that ran great in Dos became unplayable in 95. Then you had the extreme piece of crap Windows ME, it was so bad, Microsoft buried that turd as soon as they could. Also, lets not forget about Windows 3.1, it sucked because it wasn't an operating system per se, more like a shell extension of Dos. It was cool, but you couldn't run game properly in it and it was buggy. Only good for web browsing and office apps.

Dont you guys know the windows rule? Every second windows is crap.

not just bad
too fast released also

While Vista as a program wasn't all that terrible, the whole 'not working with the devices at the time' bit was a huge oversight. and entirely justifies not wanting to upgrade and the reputation it garnered. People buy Windows because it's supposed to work with everything. If it doesn't work with everything then why not go to Linux?
No if you want a real example of a terrible Windows system dust off a copy of Windows 8. where experimenting with the UI went horribly wrong. I only got to see glimpses of it since I personally never owned a system with a copy on it, but goddamn with what little I saw over the shoulder of my father every bit of it seemed both confusing and handholdy at the same time.

everything is better than win10.

I had my vista pc for about a year and a half. I was playing battle for middle earth 2 and my pc bluescreen crashed. I restarted it and all the data was just gone... After that I went back to xp until 7 launched.

Vista was not a bad, but Windows ME was. Never ever any of my Windows ME installation lived to see another day.

I am not sure, Windows ME was worse.

I lowkey really like vista. Ive used it from the day it was released until windows 10 came out

I didn't like Vista. The constant permission asking was cancer, but I will say that it was infinitely better than Windows 10. XP and 7 were still the best.

Do a review on Win ME :D
(I actually really liked it that time :D )

My laptops still running on windows vista

The Portal Gun sound ...

Never had a problem with Vista. Backed up, loaded it for testing, never went back. Loved the security of UAC.

honestly, it was just too heavy for the RAM standards we had at this time. it was a huge part of RAM usage. not really much room left for anything else. once we got the RAM standards updated, it was technically a "viable" OS. just because it's stable and was quite clean looking. unfortunately, they went with another release that simply signed up the death of Vista. it was here at the wrong time. nothing more.

8 and 10 are worse than Vista tbh

Windows 8 kinda had a bad launch

That MacOS called their latest system Mojave cracks me up because of the Mojave experiment. But yay another non-Vista hater :) my first laptop was Vista

Bill gates should be lined up nice and legal like and executed for high treason and crimes against humanity..

I WONDER IF A PETITION WOULD STOP MICROSOFT FROM KILLING OFF WINDOWS 7 SO EARLY?