It’s a little bit of an understatement that at launch Home windows Vista quite fell flat. A lot of the issue was because of how rushed of a launch it was, with incomplete driver help and varied glitches within the OS that must have been ironed out previous to launch. In a retrospective, [SteelsOfLiquid] takes a take a look at what was once probably the most notorious Home windows OS till the arrival of first Home windows 8 and subsequently the popcorn-fest that’s Home windows 11.
After a short re-run of the event historical past and preliminary launch of Vista, the OS is put in on a Core 2 Duo E8400 with 4 GB of DDR3 and a Geforce 310 card. This being the primary NT6-based Home windows model (with Microsoft leaping as much as model 10 with Home windows 10), it’s nonetheless received loads of working software program for it in 2026. Some have argued that Home windows 7 is principally Vista SE within the vein of Window 98, so it doesn’t face the identical software program and driver hurdles as e.g. Home windows XP does.
Thus the video focuses totally on the software program that was supplied with the OS, giving an in depth take a look at an OS that many people skipped in favor of sticking to Home windows XP to the despair of Microsoft who needed to push again that OS’s EOL by a couple of years because of this. For these of us who joined within the hate-fest towards Vista it feels considerably nostalgic to look again at an expertise that in 2026 phrases would have been much less tough than making an attempt to make use of Home windows 10 or 11 till years of updates made no less than the previous not solely horrible to make use of.
Right here’s hoping that Home windows 12 can be extra of a contemporary Home windows 7, particularly within the GUI division, because it’s so good to have a colourful OS interface with some tasty skeuomorphism quite than monochrome, flat icons.
