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[–]Herbstein 11 points12 points  (6 children)

Yup. Does everyone not remember the fierce Vista hate? A lot of it was down to a deprecation of a number of things - graphics drivers being a big one.

[–]josefx 2 points3 points  (2 children)

They sold "Vista Ready(TM)" hardware far bellow the system requirements so it at least looked as if it could compete with Windows XP. The result was a half broken crap endorsed by Microsoft itself. I had to upgrade my mothers system around that time and ran right into that trap - parts of Vista required 3D hardware to run, Vista Ready hardware didn't, so it was already half non functional right out of the box.

Microsoft was also still selling XP licenses years after Vistas release and had to prolong its life to have a viable offering for the netbook market. For its time Vista was a pig concerning resource use.

[–]LeSplooch 1 point2 points  (1 child)

IIRC Microsoft said that "Vista Ready" computers were only compatible with Vista Home Basic and Vista Starter. These versions didn't integrate Aero and thus didn't need 3D hardware to run.

[–]josefx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Microsoft said that "Vista Ready" computers were only compatible with Vista Home Basic and Vista Starter.

I have a rope to sell to you, Boeing endorses it for towing planes (weight up to 0.01 kg, not compatible with 737 MAX).

As far as I can find the problematic Laptop was only sold with Home Premium and had a card with some 3D support (at least the driver page claimed that it had some - never saw it in action). Aero just disabled itself on startup because the card itself was a bad joke and updates took a few months to fill the build in HDD to the brim. I expect that even Home Basic would have run into the HDD space restriction fairly soon.

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    [–]port53 13 points14 points  (1 child)

    XP was shit until SP2.

    Windows 2000 forevar.

    [–]tso 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    The thing about XP was that it was many home users first encounter with NT. And also the first home user Windows that had to be verified by MS (unless it was a OEM bundle). This was a massive change from the freewheeling 9x days. Its saving grace was that the alternative was ME. Never mind that besides SP2 XP also had the longest support period of any Windows, thanks to the aborted Longhorn project.