Windows Vista launch was a fucking mess. My office bought a laptop for a coworker in early 2007 that shipped with Vista but didn’t have Vista-compatible drivers for the on-board audio. They had to buy an external USB sound card.
Windows Vista launch was a fucking mess. My office bought a laptop for a coworker in early 2007 that shipped with Vista but didn’t have Vista-compatible drivers for the on-board audio. They had to buy an external USB sound card.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
That’s hilarious! :D A friend of mine bought a Sony Vaio laptop back then which had a 64bit CPU, but only 32bit drivers. Not even XP, only Vista, so you couldn’t even downgrade.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The thing with Vista was it was it was th3 first really major rebuild of Windows in a long time. Going to 98, ME, XP, etc you had increased minimum specs, but things like drivers and shit generally worked fine, so as long as you had the necessary RAM and processor to run the OS, you could just install the new version and shit would probably work.
So when Vista came along, the manufacturers selling existing models just shipped with the new OS expecting everything to work without testing.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
True, but it also didn’t help that Microsoft set really low system specs for “Windows Vista Ready”. So we had a lot of computers with an official Vista badge that weren’t really capable of running it well.
The specs to earn that badge were 512MB of RAM and an 800MHz processor, which was absolutely not enough for it.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah. They published the minimum specs to get the OS to run at all with zero consideration for running actual software.