The sad truth is, Windows Vista is somewhat ancient: it was released in far 2006 and reached the end of its life cycle on April 11, 2017. That means Microsoft stopped supporting it. As a result, it is now vulnerable, insecure and prone to error. In a case like this, switching to a newer version of Windows would be the best course of action.
Another frequent question is “When did Windows Vista end support?”.
On October 22, 2010, Microsoft ceased sales of retail copies of Windows Vista, and the OEM sales for Vista ceased a year later. Mainstream support for Vista ended on April 10, 2012, and extended support ended on April 11, 2017.
Another query we ran across in our research was “Is Windows Vista still a good operating system?”.
Vista was a pretty good operating system, at least after Microsoft released the Service Pack 1 update, but very few people still use it. Microsoft has since launched Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and several versions of Windows 10.
What is the latest version of Windows Vista?
Now, the latest operating system is Windows 10. Due to some reasons, Microsoft ended the mainstream support for Vista on April 10, 2012, and stopped the extended support on April 11, 2017. This means Microsoft won’t provide any kind of support and your machine no longer receives any more maintenance like security and performance updates.
The next thing we wondered was, when was the first version of Vista released?
Main article: Development of Windows Vista Microsoft began work on Windows Vista, known at the time by its codename “Longhorn”, in May 2001, five months before the release of Windows XP.
Microsoft launched Windows Vista in January 2007 and stopped supporting it in April last year. Any PCs still running Vista are therefore likely to be eight to 10 years old, and showing their age. In particular, hard drives are increasingly prone to fail after about five years, or 50,000 hours use, so it’s important to keep good backups.
Did windows vista come after xp?
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years prior, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems.
When you install Windows XP after installing Windows Vista or 7 the latter’s boot menu disappears and your PC directly boots into Windows XP. But solving the problem is just a simple matter of executing a few commands.