What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider’s Retrospective

[GDI Lord]

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What's this? A sane, balanced view on the Internet? Naaaahhhh. A bot must've written this post.

I hope we get there some day, though it seems unlikely.

You and me both, friend.

Longhord concept video

That... actually looked like it would've appealed to a bucketload of people, and if it had operated at that speed or faster, it might've had my interest too.

 

[ManofGod]

The god awful SUPER SLOW UAC!

Only if you were using Nvidia, Intel and AMD never had that issue.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

If I recall correctly, one of Vista's biggest changes was the implementation of UAC and NOT granting administrative access by default on all user accounts (which is what XP did, to the rage of sysadmins everywhere). This both screwed up alot of software that all assumed administrative access and irritated users who weren't used to having to explicitly grant escalated privileges to software (which meant a lot forum + blog posts about how to bypass/disable UAC).

Yep. Vistas UAC problem was one of perception. The user base was used to XP's lax user account/admin security and existing software didn't function well under the new UAC model, as it assumed thebuser always had admin access.

UAC was absolutely the right thing to do with Vista and along with protected memory in XP is one of the best and most important windows feature additions in the last 20 years.

Microsoft just did a shitty job of pteåaring the market for it, both when it came to developers and users.

 

[heatlesssun]

Yep. Vistas UAC problem was one of perception. The user base was used to XP's lax user account/admin security and existing software didn't function well under the new UAC model, as it assumed thebuser always had admin access.

UAC was absolutely the right thing to do with Vista and along with protected memory in XP is one of the best and most important windows feature additions in the last 20 years.

Microsoft just did a shitty job of pteåaring the market for it, both when it came to developers and users.

Cybersecurity isn't necessarily an easy thing to promote even today let alone over a decade ago. While I agree that UAC in Vista was flawed there is the constant struggle between security and other concerns. There were virtually no smartphones or social media or smart AI speakers when Vista launched which many in this place refuse to use because of privacy and security concerns yet dominate the world today, but let's try to prepare the world for tighter security. Over 10 years ago.

 

[Gasaraki_]

Vista was a fine operating system IF you had a good enough computer to run it. Unfortunately most people don't have good computers like enthusiasts do so the performance was bad. People said how great Windows 7 is but it's a reskinned version of Vista 3 years later.