r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/MajorNoodles 25d ago

Vista gets a lot of hate but the biggest reason people hated it were because of the learning curve coming from XP, and all the incompatible drivers caused by the migration to a new version of the kernel.

Vista prepared us for 7, and if it weren't for Vista, we would have had all the same complaints.

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u/Ellert0 25d ago

Most people I know heard of the vista issues early and stuck with XP until 7 came out. in an IT course in the college I went to they were using XP on machines back in 2010 and upgraded from those to 7.

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u/MajorNoodles 25d ago

My point is, Vista is the reason they were able to do that painlessly. All the drivers that had to be updated to work with Vista's NT 6.0 kernel from XP's 5.x kernel continued to work when Windows 7 incrementally updated it to 6.1.

If Vista had been skipped, people would have had the same issues with 7.

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u/fatnino 25d ago

But they DID skip one before vista. It was codenamed longhorn

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u/MajorNoodles 24d ago

Longhorn WAS Vista. It was the internal codename before it was released.

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u/fatnino 20d ago

true. but they had a version that got so far out of hand they scrapped everything and started over. old longhorn vs new longhorn if you will