Was Windows Vista THAT bad? 

king shit

Wdym, yours wasnt at 100% all the time? :0

rip cpu

@@NicuMihai when i booted it up it was around 60%, when i opened chrome tabs it got higher so i opened so many the cpu died

@@haisuri rip brothr

WindowBlinds, with the "neOS" skin.

@@Furious321 I'm 24 minutes late. It was a hell of a time. We customized everything. Windows, Winamp, and anything that supported skins. Good times.

Everyone took their desktop screenshot to show off online

Vishal Gupta's VG24-7 was a godsend.

I did the same and storage icons looked amazing

☺

the fact that some madlads got modern Web browsers working on Vista with extended kernel

as someone who has lost a countless number of photos because of carelessness, thank god you found those.

@@kamo7293 yes I was very lucky

I acquired a Dell Inspiron 530 last year with a Core 2 Duo that was being thrown away. I threw a cheap SSD, extra RAM and a used GT 610 in it (had these parts laying around, but combined cost would have been around £40 UK if I'd had to buy them), and it ran Windows 10 absolutely perfectly. Pretty good for what was at that point a 12 year old computer. We gave it away to someone who needed it for their kids during the various lockdowns of 2020.

I was 7 years old when Vista launched and I feel the exact opposite about it. I still remember the constant program not responding screens and how it felt like the operating system was trying it's very best to make you miserable. I only had it on my own laptop (bought in 2010 I think) and with the older family computer running xp working way better it really left a horrible impression.

same here, in fact, I hated Windows 7 at first when my Vista PC broke. I even bought a Vista PC just for nostalgia

I didn't hate it at the time. My family just used it to do standard stuff like making word documents or browsing the web which it did just fine. I didn't even know it was disliked until much later.

​@@NotASummoner weak pc

I was -2

Beta's a little bit generous. Let's go with Windows 7 pre alpha.

@@SirCaco beta. Windows 7 looks nearly the same as vista. Like it or not. (hard to swallow pill)

@@PaulRakoczi I'm sorry for the confusion, I wasn't talking about the way it looked.

@@PaulRakoczi I'd go with pre-alpha. Vista has higher system requirements than 7 cause Vista is a resource hog using twice the amount of processors than 7. I agree with Sir Caco, for someone who's actually tried both.

@@PaulRakoczi looks, not functions. windows vista is the second worst windows released after millenium

Blame the whole "mobile first" trend. Microsoft wants to bridge the gap between mobile and desktop and a resource-intensive desktop environment would not help in any way.

You can use custom themes

there is still windows 7 today lol

There's fluent design now and it's lit

Lel. But actually there is a predecessor of that which they called Fluent Design. It's got similar blur effect and it is slowly being implemented more into the shell than Aero was (though Aero when released was already have consistent UI than it is currently at Windows 10, which is still in-progress). It was gone during Windows 8.X, or at least more like disabled since Aero elements technically exist even in Windows 10. They just became flatter on Win 8.X and less flatter on Win 10.

Same, after I went Vista, I never wanted to go back to XP!

The fact you had a built machine made a difference. A guy I was going to school with at the time also loved it and had an insane built computer. He also adored Vista. The problem ultimately was that if you didn't have good hardware, the OS was horrible. I worked in remote support at the time and would cringe because SO many people who had Vista were running it with the minimum requirements for the OS.

Seriously windows 10, 11 and 8 are way worse.

Same

I remember my cousins had vista and when i went over for a sleepover we couldn't even get media player to work on there pc but also that we couldn't use the "main" pc as their father had already got it working as he wanted as was scared that us trying to use mp3's or the cd drive would screw everything up and end in him having wasted months of troubleshooting

ok

It's like a window, how they made tabs and stuff look like glass.

That glassy look is coming back, just in a way more modern and clean way.

@@hirnfaser7245 really?

@@hirnfaser7245 source?

@@CNETech well, I didn't mean the outdated mid 2010s glossy theme that windows 7 had (thankfully it's gone). But upcoming design trends aren't completely flat anymore. Take a look at project neon (this was some time ago and it's slowly getting implemented. 8:20 is an example of that). MacOS also has a lot of apples known gaussian blur + transparency stuff, it's everywhere in the system.

Vista's Movie Maker, was one of the best, easiest to use, "beginner" video editing software out there. Yeah, wmv only, limited resolutions and features, but it was incredibly simple and intuitive and most importantly preinstalled.

@@terryrudford5134 copied

Apple started naming their OSs after well known areas, such as Yosemite and, of course, Mojave.

funny enough Mojave the macOS iteration turned out pretty great

apple stole

My keyboard had those stickers Designed for Windows XP Compatible with Windows Vista Works with Windows 7

Ayy my monitors have those stickers

My old monitor had that sticker

What....... _monitors?????_ Now _this_ is news to me!! 😳😳😳

The taskbar is much prettier than Windows 7. I love the glass windows but the see through taskbar in 7 is ugly to me.

Mood.

only mobile users would understand this..

@@DanyPeter nah i tap to the right arrow key as well

Wow. You skip the video. Thanks for letting everyone know. This is such a dick move.

@colin3ds sometimes yes. But good god imagine how douchey that sounds. Them: make a video with a lot of effort put into it from multiple people People like op: haha look I'm going to skip this thing you've created and then post about it for likes Nobody's saying you can't skip I'm just saying like, don't be fucking rude about it. Like, literally telling them you're skipping their content? What, do you not like it? Do you not want them to get sponsors? Cause that's the message they get when they see this. It's just so rude.

Seems like they are pushing games for windows live

I had Steam on vista, I don't remember having this issue...

John r/woooooosh

hahahhaha

@@Windows-nt9ts I'm beginning to get really annoyed at whooosh my. Especially when people use it wrong, like you.

same as me, until i fed up and install windows 7 due to discontinue support on most (esp browsers make it unusable). I can reinstall vista anytime whenever i want in my grandma laptop

First OS? When did I get old 😂

would you like to run a survey ? also, the computer shall reboot in 10 minutes...

Win2k is where they should have stopped

Sometimes its easier to make a new os than support sn old os

People complained because their computer isn't meant to run windows vista (truth be told, many computers do not meet minimum requirements in 2006/07)

And spyware. Don't forget the MS spyware.

True

@@TexMex421 karen

The European digital rights organization (EDRi) sums up Windows 10's 45 pages of terms and conditions by saying "Microsoft basically grants itself very broad rights to collect everything you do, say and write with and on your devices in order to sell more targeted advertising or to sell your data to third parties" -That's spyware lol.

@@TexMex421 thats not what telemetry is for . but your a karen so you probally wouldnt want to know

Yes

YO

No. And yes. Which together make... NES ???

@@lolikawaii5865 or NOS

It's an LTT video... or is it?

Ha ha

Linustian

lmao

I laughed so hard on this

OMAGGHUF

Amen

On top of all that, anyone holding on to old software could use the Windows 7 compatibility mode to run it, although that resulted in mixed outcomes. Really though, anyone still using 16 bit software that wasn't a game could run it on a virtual machine of XP or even 98.

Been forced back to Win 7 recently, on it as I type, It's not Vista, obvs, but it's better than 10. I'm not looking forward to going back to 10. In fact, I might even try one of them Starter Linuxes, see if they're any good.

I used Xp64 for a long time. It was great. I was basically the stability of server 2003 with the XP64 bit OS, and I had zero problems with it.

There are so many hardware reasons that made Vista come off worse than it was. Comparing the cheapo supermarket PCs I had for XP SP2 and Vista, it was stepping from a P4 Celeron with 512 MB RAM to a dual core Core-derived Pentium with 3 GB. The Pentium still holds up today in an emergency and runs Windows 10 just fine while the P4 is practically unusable. The step from having cheap laptops as fast as two-year-old high end desktops means that the upgrade experience was very different from earlier versions. On the other hand, it means the new Vista-derived OSs hold up much better on new hardware. XP was running fairly well then but doesn't do any better on newer hardware whereas Vista/7 can still take advantage of the latest hardware.

My Instant Search this has to be sarcasm

hair stood up

agree

THATS FUCKING INTRO....WHO WANNA HEAR IT ANYWAYS...

Don't know about smooth, definitely one of the best though

King0Jingaling i used to play it all the time Inb4 i got minecraft running at 10-15fps

Simon Aarekol f for respect.

AND MAHJONG AND INKBALL AND PURBLE PLACE true classics vista came with everything.

Purble Place for me hahaha and 3D Pinball and MS Paint on XP

And with bluescreen...

Windows 8 is the worst! Vista's problem was hogging up CPUs and lack of drivers!

yesn't

so its yes

Nes

Yo

Or nes

Same but mine was a desktop pc

Same but mine was made by a company that was shut down the same year of the release.

Same

@@ragemamba2754 compaq?

@@Archivesrayy nah it was from fujitsu siemens, but my dad once had a compaq running xp and i have no idea where it went.

Sharky Sharklops it’s the black bars bro 😂 CiNaMaTiC

? Clearly colour grading and different lighting were what made the look.

Hey man if you could buy a couple of REDs and use it as a tax write off you sure the fuck would.

It's not the camera, but lighting that truly makes a difference

I love how bad the color noise and patterning is in that scene. Geez guys you can't invest in Neat Video Denoiser?

Where tf does it go tho

@@m1co294 the recycle bin obviously smh

@@mainframehacker I think you mean the recursive bin

you can always go into desktop settings and unhide it tho

but it was easier than going in desktop icons and disabling it (you can tick the recycle bin to restore it from the recycle bin)

XP is faster but Vista is nicer to look at

@@mustasheolll2020man in my machine the vista is faster

@@mustasheolll2020the only windows beat the vista in my computer is the 2000

I agree 100%

agreee best intro yet

Wow, never had a highlighted comment before. Thanks LTT, means a lot guys. Cheers!

Bro....

Bro....

Yeah, ikr. Why do people get this soooooo wrong!? 😤😡😡😠😤😤😡😠😤😤😡😡👿👿😠😡😤

My nose can smell 70GBs of mouse dpi

You mean only 4 mb of hardware?

because it launched incomplete and ran like shit on the computers it was supposed to run on.

Heck, I got the best grade in a high school project thanks to that movie maker

Hell yes, when they removed the timeline I kinda died inside

yes, thank you windows movie maker for the countless edgy naruto and one piece amv's

THIS! I loved Vista once service pack 2 was released. I used vista from 2007-2011. I liked everything about it. Windows 7 felt like a much more polished version of it. People call me crazy for saying Vista was not that bad lol

It is easy to use, and it still works in fine Windows 10...I think it is a part of Windows Essentials 2011? It's not wmv only, but wmv definitely provided the best compression/quality short of using handbrake... But there are lots of free, professional grade video editors out there now of all skill levels. Da Vinci Resolve is free and now arguably better than Premiere Pro if you want to really edit video...I found it easy enough to move from Movie Maker to full time use after just a few hours of using it, though it's deep enough you could spend years learning all it can do.

There was Windows 8.1 between Windows 10 and Windows 8, and 8.1 was good, very good

Actually though, like Windows 8 is just a half-baked version of Windows 10

Which kinda makes me think that the beta version of 10 must've been so much of a basket case as they seemed to have chosen not to release it, that being Windows 9.

@@stephenhunter70 I don't think Windows 9 existed as its own product though, I feel like they were designing 9 but decided to call it 10 instead. But there were beta builds (Build 9697 and 9834) that were originally planned for Windows 8.1 but then pushed to 9 and renamed to 10 before public betas began. There were many flaws with the Windows 10 betas. One beta bricked my laptop and I had to revert to Windows 8.1 with a clean install. But by the time the RTM arrived, I feel like most of the issues had been ironed out.

@@Eric-qe6xz whatever the case, what I heard was they chose not to release it! I personally like to believe that it was so bad it didn't even make their beta testing.

it was bad.. win 10 is better but performance wise only

hell yeah it was!

Well i didnt have any issues with windows 8.1 thats why i didnt update to windows 10 version. In my experience you must keep the system that works for you

It was bad from my experience. Don't know whether it was from a bad install or updates but it became increasingly useless as I kept losing functionality. Later found out my file system had failed. Pretty much forced me back to 7.

yes

sheesh dude you lag as f

@@urtooslow4415 O_O SHUT UP

7 is better than 10 hands down

Meh compiz fusion had way better effects at the time and could run on older gpu's....

ur windows 7 not windows vista lolollololol

@@nicka8618 worth it

AyYYYYYY BIIIINNNGOGOOOOOO

@Dindu Linux sucked back then for the average user and Macs were $1000usd. I think most people can wait a couple minutes for half the price. Go make a hot pocket and come back.

@Olleke Bolleke Because you probably have a new system with an ssd. Back then it took my PC 5 minutes to start Vista and 7, about 3 to start XP, and when I switched to 8 it wasn't even a minute.

and unfortunately, a few features tucked away to never be seen again

HAHAHA IKR. A combination of Yes but No = YO

yo man for real, i threw up a little

I thought he meant Yes Ofcourse XD

no it wasn't that bad really. the mac book killers launched with it...they didn't think it was that bad apparently lol

*NES*

Windows 8 was not good, but 8.1 was awesome and reliable

I still run 8.1 on my gaming rig. Had a terrible experience with 10 at launch. Rendered my laptop unusable. Its better now but I've missed the free update window now.

@@TheStuntastik Don't upgrade to Windows 10, it's bloated asf.. Windows 8.1 is still awesome even today! I've got the same shitty experience than you with W10, in 2016, one fucking bsod per day..

@@sheppardpat47 Actually, the "Embedded" version of Windows 10 (the one that works on ARM and RISC chips) is pretty lightweight, and if you're happy to move entirely into the "new world" of UWP apps (what we used to call "Metro" or "Modern UI" apps) then it's pretty snappy, and functional too. It's the people hanging on to classic Win32, and particularly the x86 version, apps which bloats Windows today. Most Linux / Unix, even Mac OS Mojave have dropped support for 32-bit applications these days. If development is active, the app can be rebuilt for x64 from source with little to no change at all. If not, you probably shouldn't be using it on a machine exposed to an internet connection. The native x86 version of Windows 10 isn't *too* flabby on disk, but it's big enough that you don't get much memory left from your maximum 3.5Gig. (unless you have an x86 system which will boot UEFI and use PAE properly, and they're few and far between)

lol.. Windows 10 is better than the hybrid trash windows 8 and 8.1 Windows 8 is already abandoned and Windows 8.1 still works fine.

No + Yes = Nes?

Yes + No = SNOW

@@WellBeSerious12 DO THE MARIO

lol, win 10 still has the full screen start menu if you enable it and I personally love and use it.

You can actually, re-enable the full-screen start menu in Windows 10

XP, in it's day, WAS totally the business. Lean and fast and not remotely bloatware.

Windows 7 feels like an outdated version of windows vista

I like windows to this and still use it

NES

YO!

Vista = YO VTEC = YO Vista = VTEC Huh, the more you know...

I loled at that 😂

@@VAX1970 Nintendo Entertainment System? It's a joke, don't take it seriously, Vista's good

I don't even remember dogging vista. ME was the butt of all jokes.

@@BRad-mn5pk for reals. I remember day 1: booted the computer, illegal kernel execution, EVERYTIME I BOOTED. Also, tons of other illegal executions, incompatibilities, and it made me want to go back to Win 98 SE. To this day, I have no idea what was wrong, but I hated ME for failing to work...

@@luja805 OUTDATED!! Windows 98 is no longer a secure platform.

@@luja805 I've heard complaints about ME but yours is the first I've read stating why. Personally, I never had any issues with ME and always wondered why it was hated. Edit: I had Vista Pro and Vista Ultimate...no problems there either. What made me angry was that it seemed like I only had Vista for about a year and Win 7 was released.

You don't know the pain of windows CE

Apart from Windows 8 having such a really bad ui for non touch devices, ive heard that it was also a bit unstable for some. But 8.1 fixed most of the problems just like what Windows 7 did to Vista.

Windows 8.1 was the best os

@@juanzambrano1760 I'm talking about a touchscreen device like the surface pro. I prefer using windows 8 instead of windows 10 on a touchscreen device. In my opinion, windows 8 is a lot better in that way, BTW it's a lot faster than win 10 probably because of less bloat-ware. Yes, I can agree that using it on a desktop is just bad.

@@lizzybach4254 On touch devices it maybe but on desktop win7 is the best except for the fact that it's support is ended

@@vrajeshpc It is the best for touch devices. Its start menu does not look hideous compared to win 10 and it has a lot of gestures. And also it is very fast.

Shame newer versions look like horse shit

XP with Paradise or Zune theme

I honestly didn't care for it. It seemed like a lot of unnecessary stuff. I'm not even sure what the point of transparencies is other than to try to look futuristic. It added no functionality and just hurt weaker systems.

@@InfernosReaper The transparency alone was a 'step forward' for me, I was around 11 when it came out so it looked futuristic at the time and I personally loved playing with the widgets. It's mainly nostalgia cus it was a pain to use, but it's kinda fun remembering playing with all the compatibility settings. - Shows how fun my childhood was I guess.

I was an adult when Vista came out, but I suspect even 11 year old me would've been like "what's the point of this?" Then again, 11 year old me was use to the slow, clunky UIs of Windows 9x and System 7.x operating systems of the 90s.

Me in 2020 : ugh, games on Windows 10 are soooo laggy. Gamer : Check my TITAN RTX.

wow i remember the gtx 295 that is OG

The gtx 295 came out in 2009 tho

Ethereal I don’t remember what year it came out. But I remember in 2008-ish I was looking in future shop at the GTX 260 And the 295 caught my eye

@@tucker12435 release was in January 2009 I remember.

@@GiovanniSmith tru

Hahaha 69 likes

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not as bad as WINDOWS ME

You're everywhere

agreed lol i really hate windows 10 tiles and much prefer the simple ui from those days.

Technically windows 8 already changed the design but everyone seems to forget about win 8 😬

Yannick true lol I liked windows 10 just not the tiles but you are right I did forget it started in windows 8.

y'all know you can make windows 10 looks like windows 7 right?

@@Fluffypotato1990 windows 8 had tiles, windows 10 went back to normal

Very useful, but just overpriced and medias are constantly making fun of both vista and rtx to destroy their reputation, for fun.

Brilliant but an utterly borked launch with terrible consumer support? Sounds about right

I'm waiting for the next line of NVIDIA GPU's. Hopefully it's called LTX Graphics Card

@@namelessguy199 RTX isn't useful yet.....the technology needs to be much more refined.A 2080ti runs ray tracing at 1080p & barely manages 60fps...lol....nvidia should have waited till they refined it much more

@@nahush6299 not even full raytracing either. Just cherry picked surfaces that the devs choose. Sometimes not even shadows

7:13 Windows end support: 2020 This guy: 2 5 6 0

@@namelesstheme4046 the hell does that mean

@@apeiron1700 yeah thats sound dumb

@@namelesstheme4046 imagine being a binman and petting a cat.

u try doing full time utube for free

so it gave a blue screen tantrum?

😂😂😂😂

bro upgrade

Extended support ended three years ago. You should really upgrade.

I just wrote an increadibly big story about how much I love Vista, but even I know its time to upgrade. I couldn't live without Windows 10 today. It's not even that hard to run. I can only imagine how terrible the rest of your specs are. That being said, if you can't upgrade, any computer is better than no computer.

Mine lagged, but it would lag with any os. Celeron m 1,73 single core

The complaints were from people with low end machines. Vista was too demanding for most PCs.

@@tedtheawesome5803 Bro, i had a 150$ PC

@@shotbyrima mine was MSI Megabook VR700. 1gb ram,80 gb hdd 950gma video. I lately installed windows xp, than windows 8.1 and it was even better. I stopped using it in 2013. For low end systems I would install linux, unless you want to play some old games like frozen throne, starcraft and diablo II.

@@carmieologyThis windows Vista is 100% installed on HDD there is no way to run property any modern OS including linux without severe lag or at least considerable delay. My point is you either need to change this HDD or if you have place run both drive SSD for windows 10. + HDD( You can place the older hard drive where CD drive is now, the new SSD goes where your HDD is currently. In both cases there is no point in formatting and deleting Vista paritition( at least keeping it in sehlf storage for some day) My advice is to go for dual boot if you want to keep both Vista and win 10.

Actually it's the other way around.

@Christopher Surillo Yeah, those were awesome and very innovative compared to Windows XP

Windows 7 is the shit, I love it!!!

It surely doesnt run as well as windows 7 though

@@friedrichii.aliasdergroe9233 :)) The service pack 2 make Vista run as good as Windows 7.

and then the thing with the core 2 duos where people would stick to their Pentium instead..

I had pc with amd Athlon and 4 gb ram. Vista was still crap.

I remember when MS suspended sales of XP, a lot of manufacturers got stuck with a ton of budget XP machines still in process. For a year or two after that, there were a lot of Vista Basic machines in the market that had no real hope of running right with the hardware they had as the manufacturers ran through components meant for budget XP machines. That kinda thing in a new purchase goes a long way towards building a bad reputation.

RAM was actually very affordable in those days. At least, comparatively to how 16gb (8x2) used to cost earlier this year. I remember buying a 512 stick for no more than $60.

Africa have computers? where do they plug it in, in the trees?

Exactly

@El-ahrairah Windows 7 was essentially the Vista equivalent to XP SP2, which was an update so large, it was almost a complete rewrite of the OS; so huge in fact, you could actually install XP from scratch just from the Service Pack. However, M$ marketing would tell a different story.

@El-ahrairah I started using it in july of '08, and I'm 100% positive It was perfectly fine then. I guess SP1+ it was.

​@Rock Light​ That's your experience. (I had the near-reverse experience, with Vista being near perfect and W7 having constant crashes and OS problems, but it turned out that it was a graphics problem). I Don't deny your PC problems, but this is not what made vista's bad reputations. Frequent réinstallations and getting hacked are not at all specific to Vista (in fact when it comes to malwares XP was definitely worse). However, vista's specific problems (the ones that got it a bad reputation) were: -underpowered PCs receiving the "vista capable" label. The PC industry had stagnated during the XP era as there was no urge to keep Moving forward, and so it was underprepared for Vista. (it is telling that low-end PC specs nearly quadrupled between '07 and '08) -driver compatibility problems (Vista had a new driver system that didn't mesh well with most early 2000s quick&dirty drivers). -the user account control. This was a necessary security measure (for all the users out there downloading every cr*p they found online), but it was quite annoying, especially if you knew well what you were doing. -"memory hog". (vista was not actually hogging the memory, it was managing it in an unfamiliar way, but it still looked like memory hog) -maybe, the implementation of DRMs. I mean, the FSF made a lot of noise about it in '07, but barely anyone else mentioned it. It was probably not the problem. However, crashes and malwares and BSODs are definitely not vista's specific problem. In fact, the BSOD is not a problem, but a solution; and if Microsoft removed it from Windows, then you'd be able to continue working (without saving of course) or playing or whatevering for a couple more minutes and then your PC would commit autodestruction.

also, a Vista SP3 that had the W7 system améliorations, the superbar and libraries, the new paint and wordpad, and the theme system and MP4/MOV support but without all the downsizing (moviemaker, photogallery, mail, calendar, meetingspace, Inkball, less sample content, file stacking, dinosaur pointers, less screensavers, the contacts gadget, help videos, dreamscene, etcaetera…) and with the vista look-and-feel (dark blue-green gradient with the animated "flare" thing) Would have been the AWESOMEST.

Couldn't have plugged it into the router with a network cable? You fucking idiot lol

@@JordanJank Thats what I thought. A BFI. Big fucking idiot.

@@ark_knight funny think, I had this mobo with a killer nic chip that needed a driver install you needed to install before it could connect to the internet, and this was over ethernet...when I upgraded from windows xp to windows 7 the bloody cd didnt have the new drivers and so the only way to get it to work was to dl the new driver...tell me how would anyone dl something without being able to connnect

@@jlei8aX another pc and an USB flashdrive?

@@gabberskilzz yeah man all households have multiple pcs man cuz you know we all have wads of cash laying around

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oh yeah the notepad tutorials :3

Ya

Same thing here! I ran it on a Phenom X6 1090T in 2010 and it was sooo nice

lmao

I'm pretty sure that Me is still the worst, everyone has forgotten it though.

@@wordart_guian Windows 9 was the worst, because it never existed so it never contributed to humanity windows 9 the worst >:(

This is so funny

funny thing about windows me and even windows 4.1 is that its still detecting even actual drivers like even internet drivers and it still works very well :)

Same..

Amen, my brother. Modern is sleeker, clearer, probably easier to work with and really be productive... But Vista Aero GUI was simply beautiful.

Now its time for me to drop a controversy bomb, windows 8.1 was fine and well optimized still better than 10 tbh. Though if i could create my own Frankenstein's monster of a windows OS, id take the UI of vista and the optimization of windows 8.1 with modern day compatibility.

I still think 95 looked the best

@@ishashka Yes, I could defend that too. 95 was extremely crisp and brought liberal use of 16 bit colors and recorded sound samples to a broad PC audience. They weren't the first in any of that of course, but they just knocked it out of the park in terms of all-encompassing usability both for home and office users, for gaming, for education, for productivity, for multimedia... It was very usable and it "knew its place" so to speak as part OS, part GUI application shell.

you must've had a pretty badass system back then.

That was because dx10 was not available on xp, and halo 2 required dx10 to work.

Its because of game support not on purpose. Windows xp didnt have the proper DX10

@@Cr1tiCalThe0ry Halo 2 wasn't using 10, I believe your thinking of Gears of War. Also Halo 2 runs fine on XP via hacks.

This kind of comments is why Vista's reputation is so bad. Uninformed hate

Xp to 7 : WOW this is the Future Visto to Windows 8 : WOW, Windows Is Trash ... Windows 10, a mix of 7 and 8 ...: WOW a mix of Love and Hate ...

@@serenemountain6769 me on win8: what have they done to ma boi?...

@@alanherrera5421 my feelings exacly , i could never touched the stuff, windows 10 it's so so, but its better then 8 ...

Serene Mountain Vista isn’t trash

@@someguywithmtndew5691 at the time of it's release it was ! it was not optimized for the main stream pc's of that particular time period ! only the last version of Vista had the same performance of Windows 7 ! There for it depends on your point of view ! Like i stated at the time vista was released,most pc's like 90% of the ones being sold, were in a slow down because they could not handle vista, for the time it was a heavy OS , that was later fixed ! For me personally it was very late, by the time they fixed i had 7 installed ! If your pc at the time of vistas release had at least 4gb of ram or above, well you were one of the lucky ones ! most retail stores had pcs from 2 to 3gb of ram with vista installed , with extreme slowdowns ! Even though i had a custom build of 8 gb of ram at the time, i pretty much saw vista for what it was ... a promise like Windows Me and Windows 8 !