Eventually products were ready for the operating system at least a couple months after its release. This pretty much left Vista with limited support at launch. A lot of IHV’s and ISV’s didn’t start preparing updates to their products until Microsoft actually sent Windows Vista to manufacturing. The factor that also led to that was Vista’s increasing moving target schedule. A lot of this was as a result of how the hardware and software industry embraced Vista. Windows Vista’s other problem was compatibility out of the box. When build 5308 was released in February 2006, it was obvious 512 MBs of RAM would not be sufficient to run it, so I took advantage of the depreciating RAM prices and installed a 2 GB kit. Vista ran beautifully on capable hardware that was configured with enough RAM and acceptable processor speed. I personally ran Windows Vista from the first build released in August 2005 right up to the RTM released in January 2007. Windows Vista focused on so many things that in some respects, it lost focused. Those plans however were held back by its becoming a moving target and added heft throughout development.
Windows Vista had its share of execution failures, originally intended as a Second Edition of Windows XP planned for 2004, the upgrade code named Longhorn most of its development life promised to revolutionize computing. It was Microsoft’s most ambitious release at the time. Windows Vista came to market in January of 2007 after 5 years of development. We continue to look at upgrading from previous versions of Windows to Windows 8.
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