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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).
by 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 agoIt was one of the least popular versions of Windows, no? Certainly its market share never exceeded XP's.
- bArray 7y agoI 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 agoMy 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 agoWindows 7 should have been called Vista SP7. That is what I called 7's hasty premier after Vista's lackluster debut.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y agoNo, 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.