Microsoft says goodbye to windows vista, support ends in April

Microsoft closes a stage that it does not remember with special 'affection', that of Windows Vista, which was officially launched back in January 2007. Support for Windows Vista will end on April 11, the same month that the Windows 10 Creators Update.

Official Windows Vista support ends on April 11

Microsoft announced that Windows Vista support ends on April 11, so, as of that date, it will stop receiving security updates to focus its efforts on Windows 8, and especially on Windows 10. The end of support for Vista can also generate a domino effect, with software developers and drivers that also stop supporting this system.

It should be said that Windows Vista had already stopped receiving support in 2012 and currently had 'extended' support, which will end in approximately one month.

Windows Vista is already more than 10 years old and is probably the most forgotten operating system of the last five years, being totally absorbed by Windows 7, which came out only two years later. Most of us have a bad memory of it because its requirements were a bit high for the time, about 512MB of RAM and 20GB of disk space, when Windows XP asked for at least 64MB of RAM and only 1.5GB of disk space. This made migration very slow.

The death of Windows Vista is not that it will sadden many people, it is estimated that only between 1 and 3% of computers in the world have this system installed.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is finalizing the details for the release of the Creators Update on Windows 10, which will be released in April.

Source: eteknix