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Windows Vista wasn’t the disaster we all remember it as
13 Dec 2025 14:34 GMT
… Vista’s fault.
Hardware requirement woes
Windows Vista required higher-end hardware than XP … , Microsoft continued to support Windows XP after Vista’s launch in January 2007 … search your PC started in Vista. In Windows XP, search was a separate …
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9 Apps You Should Never Install On Windows 11
07 Dec 2025 19:22 GMT
… program in the days of Windows XP, it doesn't … way from the days of Windows XP, and handles most features … for a ride.
CCleaner
Windows XP was a very successful operating … the time when Windows 10 started phasing out Windows XP (actually Vista, but that …
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I think I know what's coming in Windows 12, and you're not going to like it
03 Dec 2025 12:57 GMT
… system. Windows 10 is officially unsupported. Windows 11 is … incapable of upgrading beyond Windows 11.
Arm-based … subscription fee for Windows.
Also: Hate Windows 11? Here… game-changer. Think Windows 95, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
Also: Microsoft has …
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3 unique RSS reader apps for Windows to try this weekend
29 Nov 2025 18:43 GMT
… three RSS Feed apps from Windows.
Fluent Reader
Fluent Reader … with the user interface in Windows 11.
It is minimalist, … interface takes inspiration from the Windows XP, Vista, and 7 era.
It … are skins inspired by Windows 11, Vista, and Windows 98 available.
If …
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Local tech consultants work with customers amidst Windows 11 update
26 Nov 2025 23:27 GMT
… decision to stop routinely supporting Windows 10 leaves older computers … transitions from Windows XP and Vista, predecessors to Windows 10.
Not every Windows 10 … computer is compatible with Windows …
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Windows, forty years of a name that has become indispensable
21 Nov 2025 06:48 GMT
… bug, XP focused on "eXPerience," and Vista on … graphical experience. Faced with Vista's lukewarm reception, … single, continuously updated Windows... before Windows 11 came along and … their final merger with Windows XP. The internal numbering tells …
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Microsoft Windows hits 40 years old: A visual walk down memory lane
20 Nov 2025 17:23 GMT
… distributed by other providers.©Microsoft
Windows Vista
Windows Vista hits the shops in … with Windows XP.©2014
Windows 1.01 to Windows 8: 25 years of Windows
2007: Windows Vista … the ageing Windows XP. Microsoft’s answer to this was Windows Vista, which …
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Microsoft Windows at 40 – from wonky beginnings to world-domination
20 Nov 2025 14:38 GMT
… .
Huh? Were Microsoft Windows’ windows particularly dirty or something? … that, because Windows had finally become… good.
Windows XP (2001) was … media without self-combusting.
Windows Vista (2007) bombarded users with … of Vista’s chaos. And Aero Snap’s windows …
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Windows is 40 today! Here's the 20 best (and worst) moments in Windows history
20 Nov 2025 08:08 GMT
… 30 years ago.
11. Windows Vista
(Image credit: Future)Microsoft … Vista on us in 2007 as the sequel to Windows XP, … Vista introduced some useful upgrades over XP, including DirectX 10, Windows Speech … the flaws in Vista by releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 …
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Can you install Windows XP on a modern computer?
13 Nov 2025 19:10 GMT
… harsh truth about installing Windows XP today
XP belongs to a … inject modern drivers into Windows XP and otherwise modify it … to run Windows XP inside a virtual computer. Windows XP thinks it… for 3D acceleration for Windows XP and Vista guest OSes following …