Vista is on its deathbed, but not many tears will be shed
Are you still running Windows Vista? Then now is the time to start seriously considering an upgrade, because official support for the operating system is about to run out in just under a month’s time.
Microsoft will no longer support Vista after April 11, which is four weeks today.
That means no more security updates – or indeed patches of any kind for whatever problems may crop up with the OS – and no more technical support from Microsoft.
Going forward, when new vulnerabilities pop up in Vista, these holes will remain, ready to be exploited by malicious parties preying on users who continue to run unsupported software.
Speaking of all things malicious, also note that Microsoft will no longer provide Security Essentials (its antivirus app) for download on Windows Vista PCs, and for existing users, definition updates will only continue for a ‘limited’ time.
Windows Vista is now 10 years old, and wasn’t popular even back when it was released, being seen as rather sluggish and bloated, and a step back from its predecessor, Windows XP.
