Talk:Windows Vista

Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn)

Longhorn was the predecessor project, which was fully cancelled. Vista is not Longhorn. --2A02:908:EB20:C600:98B0:F322:8F57:E308 (talk) 03:13, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Longhorn is the codename for Windows Vista. pcuser42 (talk) 06:33, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

I would just like to chime in that "fully cancelled" is a terrible misconception; "Longhorn" is the codename of Windows Vista. (IanWilliam20 (talk) 06:54, 3 January 2017 (UTC))

The earliest builds of "Windows Longhorn" were based on Windows Server 2003. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ForeverCoding (talk • contribs) 13:32, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

The Win Vista logo is missing on the sidebar.

The Win XP logo is missing on the sidebar.

Cnon20 (talk) 13:19, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Cnon20

Semi-protected edit request on 12 January 2018

180.251.240.39 (talk) 14:35, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Spintendo ᔦᔭ 14:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Memory section is wrong

1GB Was never an option for Vista. Vista couldn't handle more than something like 768MB RAM. Anything beyond that and it was crippled. Also, note that the only reason this was so is because Microsoft purposefully kludged the VMM's code; a guy from an electronics shop on Long Island wrote a replacement for the memory manager that allowed you to access several GB of RAM. Microsoft obviously wouldn't admit that they had kludged their code to cripple 98, because they wanted everyone to dump 98 for XP. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 18:32, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

@AllGloryToTheHypnotoad: None of this can be used to update the article without citations of reliable sources that support what you have said. See WP:BURDEN. General Ization ^Talk 18:36, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Also, the article reflects exactly what Microsoft itself has said, so it is unlikely to be changed without compelling evidence. General Ization ^Talk 18:38, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Neither our article nor Microsoft have said that all of the 1GB was going to be utilized by the OS. These are the limits on memory that can be installed. Since memory was at the time being sold in increments of 1 GB and 768 MB RAM cards were not offered, as a practical limit a 1 GB memory card was the most that could be used in a machine running Vista. General Ization ^Talk 18:43, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Oh wait a sec... this was a problem with Win98, not Vista. My bad. Comment stricken. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 19:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Date in short description

The short description lists the release year as 2006, the year it was released to manufacturers; but it was made generally available in 2007. Should it be edited to list the general availability date? Bowler the Carmine (talk) 22:50, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Advertisement

Considering Windows Vista has been unsupported for 3 years and not sold since October 2010 I don't think it is really an advertisement. More of a Vista fan's POV. 88.215.30.163 (talk) 13:38, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Full End of support 2021???

Not sure what full support ends on 13th April 2021 in the infobox means as Vista support ended in 2017 with the end of extended support. Vista2003 (talk) 13:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Date of latest stable version

Where does that date (October 18, 2016) for the latest stable version come from? Is there a source for that? The source gives another date (May 26, 2009).--NvPhsyx (talk) 14:14, 5 August 2021 (UTC)