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"Users of Windows Vista can download the updates (Monthly Rollup or Security Online) of Windows Server 2008 from the Update Catalog and install them manually."

"Users of Windows Vista can download the updates (Monthly Rollup or Security Online) of Windows Server 2008 from the Update Catalog and install them manually." https://borncity.com/win/2019/05/15/critical-update-for-windows-xp-up-to-windows-7-may-2019/ https://borncity.com/win/2019/05/15/critical-update-for-wind... But this is definitely confusing. MS explicitly offers patches for Win 7, Server 2008, Server 2003, and XP, but there's no "Vista" link visible. https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0708 https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500705/customer-guidance-for-cve-2019-0708 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500705/customer-gu...

dmix 7y ago
It makes sense not to mention Vista in a headline consider the very low usage rates. If anyone should not expect security update news via popular news outlets its Window's Vista users. There are plenty of niche channels for niche product releases.
- bArray 7y ago
  On a side note, I think that Vista wasn't necessarily unpopular, it just had a good upgrade path/incentive for users (unlike XP to Vista).
  - n4r9 7y ago
    It was one of the least popular versions of Windows, no? Certainly its market share never exceeded XP's.
    - bArray 7y ago
      I think Vista was the least popular as you say, but I think that was because the upgrade path/incentive wasn't there. The upgrade from XP to Vista meant a lot of software stopped working, especially from a driver perspective. If you're using some niche software that "just works (tm)", why change? Especially if it costs a lot of money to upgrade or your system isn't networked. The UK tried to upgrade its XP running backbone years ago, failed - and still got billet £10+ billion.
  - rincebrain 7y ago
    My perception for a long time has been that Vista, from a technical perspective, was leaps and bounds above XP, but the end user experience was sometimes lacking; 7 didn't provide drastic technical improvements so much as offering a much-polished Vista.
    - tunap 7y ago
      Windows 7 should have been called Vista SP7. That is what I called 7's hasty premier after Vista's lackluster debut.
  - AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
    No, it was quite unpopular, period. See: https://xkcd.com/528/ https://xkcd.com/528/ There was the popular perception at the time that every other version of Windows was good, while the in-betweens sucked. Vista followed that expectation perfectly, as did Windows 8.
    - will4274 7y ago
      > No, it was quite unpopular, period. See: https://xkcd.com/528/ https://xkcd.com/528/ I've always read this comic as making fun of people for having unjustifiably low opinions of Vista.
rincebrain 7y ago
Not surprised the 2008 patch is intended to work on Vista, I was more bemused that they had an otherwise exhaustive list of versions and how to patch them, and just...left it off, not only in the headlines, but in a number of the enumerations.

dmix 7y ago

It makes sense not to mention Vista in a headline consider the very low usage rates. If anyone should not expect security update news via popular news outlets its Window's Vista users. There are plenty of niche channels for niche product releases.

bArray 7y ago
On a side note, I think that Vista wasn't necessarily unpopular, it just had a good upgrade path/incentive for users (unlike XP to Vista).
- n4r9 7y ago
  It was one of the least popular versions of Windows, no? Certainly its market share never exceeded XP's.
  - bArray 7y ago
    I think Vista was the least popular as you say, but I think that was because the upgrade path/incentive wasn't there. The upgrade from XP to Vista meant a lot of software stopped working, especially from a driver perspective. If you're using some niche software that "just works (tm)", why change? Especially if it costs a lot of money to upgrade or your system isn't networked. The UK tried to upgrade its XP running backbone years ago, failed - and still got billet £10+ billion.
- rincebrain 7y ago
  My perception for a long time has been that Vista, from a technical perspective, was leaps and bounds above XP, but the end user experience was sometimes lacking; 7 didn't provide drastic technical improvements so much as offering a much-polished Vista.
  - tunap 7y ago
    Windows 7 should have been called Vista SP7. That is what I called 7's hasty premier after Vista's lackluster debut.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
  No, it was quite unpopular, period. See: https://xkcd.com/528/ https://xkcd.com/528/ There was the popular perception at the time that every other version of Windows was good, while the in-betweens sucked. Vista followed that expectation perfectly, as did Windows 8.
  - will4274 7y ago
    > No, it was quite unpopular, period. See: https://xkcd.com/528/ https://xkcd.com/528/ I've always read this comic as making fun of people for having unjustifiably low opinions of Vista.

rincebrain 7y ago

Not surprised the 2008 patch is intended to work on Vista, I was more bemused that they had an otherwise exhaustive list of versions and how to patch them, and just...left it off, not only in the headlines, but in a number of the enumerations.