What that means is no more security patches or hotfixes for the legacy operating system, which is now three generations behind the times (or four if you want to count Windows 8.1 as its own generational release).
Vista was not the best of operating systems, but it was more highly rated than the previous Windows XP, which still accounts for 7.44 percent of all desktops worldwide.
Vista owners can upgrade to Windows 10 but it's unlikely that PCs from Vista's early days will be able to support the latest version anyway.
With the new parts of Longhorn flawed and the old parts of Longhorn riddled with security issues, Microsoft decided in August 2004 to start over, scrapping most of the work done in the previous three years. As its graph below shows, Vista's light green line never topped Windows XP's market share was quickly overtaken by its successor Windows 7. These issues and others led many XP users to skip Vista entirely.
With that many users still on Windows Vista and absolutely zero support in terms of security, updates and tech support, it's likely that many will move to Windows 10 this month.
IT WAS CLUNKY, it was bloated, it marked the beginning of the end of Microsoft's domination of operating systems, but despite all this, it's a vital chapter in the history of Microsoft Windows.
As of 11 April, Vista users will no longer receive security updates and technical help, the company confirmed in a blog post.
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Windows Vista also came with a new user interface which was labeled Windows Aero or the Aero Glass.
Additionally, many apps are ending support for Vista anyway so it will become increasingly hard to get a working setup without making some serious sacrifices.
And Your Pal Ched said: 'RIP Windows Vista.bad OS that will not be missed but my first computer ran on Vista and I loved that old thing'. It was no surprise then that, within a year of its adoption, it had outpaced Windows Vista.
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The takeaway from all of this: This is what happens when you refuse to upgrade to a current operating system.
Aside from the reference in its name, Windows 10 Cloud doesn't have much to do with the cloud at all.
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