Vista: End of Support 4/10/2012! What do current Vista users plan to do?

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So Microsoft Vista mainstream support ends April 10, 2012. What do you plan on doing? It's worth noting that Windows 8 is running very late and might not arrive for X86 PCs until the end of 2012 or early 2013. With Vista heading to the graveyard, what will Vista users do?

 

Ummm... Just upgrade to Windows 7? W7 is a more stable and concise OS over Vista and definitely is suited to be the next XP as a MS-based OS.

 

they should just give windows 7 away for free to anyone that had to live through the horror of vista.

 

I'll continue to use Vista, what else? Why would I pay for a new OS when I'm not buying a new laptop? (or other computer)

Besides, Win7 with the Vaio drivers is also just trouble.

On a side note though, I believe Vista Business will continue to get support a bit longer.

 

Windows Vista Business and Enterprise recieves support until 11.04.2017, but why do they kill of support for Ultimate?
Its basically Home Premium combined with Business.

 

I have no idea. Although I believe there are some network specific features in Business that don't exist in Ultimate.
At least I believe I saw such a graphic a long, long time ago from MS...

 

Guys, what does it actually mean, no longer getting any support? Can you no longer call them if you have problems with an activation key or??

 

No more updates. Simple as that.

 

that's just the support WITHOUT ANY SERVICE PACKS INSTALLED.

and your stuff about win8 is totally wrong anyways.

 

What a retarded poll.

It's not like Vista will stop working properly on April 11.

Windows 8 is not running late.

 

Incorrect:

Microsoft ended support for Vista, without any service pack, back in 2010, and ended support for Vista SP1 back on July 12, 2011.

The end of support for Vista SP2 will be on April 10, 2012.

There will be no SP3 for Vista.

 

not what i can read on this chart. but anyways, too much convoluted fake-facts from you anyways. nor did any consumer ever care about support anyways.

 

I will continue to use Vista and will not be pressurized by micro$oft into buying a younger OS.
Thing is, if they can run XP for so long, why not other OS's? Is this just really about the money? Hmmmmm.

 

I'm glad to see someone else thinks moving from windows to linux is an upgrade.

 

Have Vista on the home Pentium D desktop that my parents use, but I have no intension of changing OSes just because MS won't be having "Patch Tuesdays" anymore. Frankly, I'd say the risks are greatly exaggerated.

 

Doesn't matter what you think you read.

End of Support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista (with no service packs installed) - Microsoft Support Lifecycle blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

And here's more:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle

Windows Vista SP1

Date of availability: February 4, 2008

Support retired: July 12, 2011

Not that you'll ever do it, but it's OK to admit you're wrong.

 

No, but the end of support means an end to security patches and other updates. It's the end of "Download Tuesday" for most Vista users. So, yes Vista will still "work," but there are risks associated with using any unsupported operating system, but especially an unsupported Windows OS.

Microsoft has been very careful about not releasing schedules and avoiding common terms associated with software development. Windows 8 is probably running late, but Microsoft has avoided conventional benchmarks.

Windows 8 most definitely won't be here on April 10, 2012, when Vista Support ends. It might not be available as a retail release until late 2012 or early 2013.

 

So how can they be running late if they haven't given us a launch date? They can't. You're just making things up.

Even if Windows Update stop working, MS keeps making updates for the Extended support, which means you can always download them and install manually.
Not ideal, but better than nothing.

See the other thread for more free solutions.

 

Good move microsoft. Vista was a disaster. People should be given a massive discount if they return their working vista disc and or key to Microsoft.

 

Agreed. In fact, the poll lacks many obvious alternatives.

That's what I said?

 

The part about Automatic Updats was for consumer Vista only.

I just thought that since updates will be made for Extended Support, why not use them until W8 shows up, even if you have to install them manually?

 

I find it rather disgusting that 'Ultimate' version users are being treated as 'Home' version users.
Those who have paid the most, first have had been promised an abundance of premiums, extras, 'much more to come' but Microsoft never came through.
And now the 'Ultimate' users get f'ed over again.
Any 'Ultimate' OS version from Microsoft should be avoided as if it were the plague. No use spending extra $$ on empty promises and lousy treatment.

 

sure is. that's what i base my knowledge on

.. hence ..

i sure do. guess i'm wrong here.


still, the whole thing is a non-issue. those who care about being up to date and all moved on to win7 and will so when win8 is out. those who don't care, they just don't care. why should they bother if they're supported or not? i know people still using their win98 pc. yes. in 2012. well, in 2011, haven't seen him lately. maybe he moved on by now..

 

Which explains a whole lot.

 

sorry to not be a native english reader. but at least i base my knowledge on facts (that might have gotten misread sometimes, but it's not often actually), instead of pulling stuff out of my back, like semiexpert does. at least his win8 "facts" are all totally unbased and often very twisted around and wrong.

and i admitted to be wrong, so there's that.

 

I'd say that this tread had its desired effect. Microsoft's support policies were in need of a serious "update."

As far as I'm concerned, this tread can now be closed.

Microsoft quietly extends consumer support for Windows 7, Vista | ZDNet

 

It should be very clear that Microsoft changed its support policies after this thread was initiated. I don't know why Microsoft made this change, and there wasn't even a press release, but it did move back the end of support date for most Vista users to from April 10, 2012 to 2017 and for most Windows 7 user from 2015 to 2020.

 

MS have changed their support policy in general. The reason they did it now is obviously because we're closing in on April 10 (and not because of threads popping up), if MS just wanted to please consumers they could just have added one year.

This is a much bigger change, MS probably realized that it's a bit odd to make updates for Business/Enterprise users only, when the same updates can be used for consumer versions as well.

 

Ever heard the terms correlation and causation?
A few hundred users on the world wide web are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things for Microsoft.
Maybe someone saw this thread - and maybe there are 100 others like this - in this case it might have had the effect of an advertisement flyer, but not more.

However, to be realistic, I can only agree with Indrek, this thread has got nothing to do with the change of support policies.
Add to that, companies normally move slowly - the accountants will want to know how much it costs and emails will be going to and fro, these changes (unless vital) normally don't happen from one day to another.

 

same as the threads about 16:10 screens and stuff. except to be a space for ranting, useless. even though, sometimes it's sad that they're useless, of course.

hi detlev btw.

 

Hello Dave.
I suppose on some topics it is more than just good for ranting - but it would need to be a situation that demands a response, such as laptops catching fire for example. The length of updates isn't important enough - especially considering that I do believe the initial time of support is published with the product, and only that is binding. Anything else is a bonus - albeit a very welcome one which keeps customers loyal.

 

This is a very welcome change (no matter what caused it), Vista with SP2 still works perfectly for me and I plan to be using it for a long time.

And yes I do run Win 7 on another laptop and still prefer Vista.

 

if one really wants to change something, then a public forum is just the start. after that, one has to move on to the corporations directly, get in contact with them, etc. but a forum post by itself does not change the world (except in the rare case where it spreads trough the media as viral news, as you stated).

companies like microsoft are actually very responsive if you contact them. i contacted them because of some faulty behaviour of superfetch. bug is fixed.

 

Hello? Did you reply to the wrong post? I'm 100% with you here, dunno how you got me wrong.

 

Looks like I wanted the post above you... Sorry. Not sure how that happened.