Windows Vista Support Ends April 2017 - What are Your Options?

Actually Vista updates are not stopped, I suggest you look at Vista updates.

However, after the total finishing of Vista support, MS states some spiel about XP on the page it diverts to. It then says about updating to 10. Go there and it will tell you how to do it from 7, so MS are totally giving up on Vista, (the most stable platform we have had) and probably going to say it was not theirs!!!! 

Windows Vista is 10 years old.

Apple no longer support Mac 10.5

Redhat, Ubuntu and any other major developer does not support operating systems from the year 2007.

Since its release, Microsoft has released Windows 7, Windows 7 8.0, 8.1 and Windows 10 1507, 1511, 1607 and the upcoming 1703. It would require too much resources to keep supporting Windows Vista.

It had a good run. Of course, you can keep using it even after April 2017, but reduce your usage on the Internet.

Andre de costa, sir there is a comment I would like to make BUT not on here. Lookit not everybody whipped out and bought Vista the day it was made. Some did not install for a long time after the first versions came about. Secondly, whilst you may think there are reasons to throw away a machine that works perfectly well and I am asuming you have the financial resources, many have not nor need to do so!

  It is VERY condescending to take THAT attitude. There is no easy way to migrate to 10 for example, there are still many Bsods and only techies can solve them often. For example someone using the machine as a purely on internet device and word processor and say skype the machine works well and reliably. Why change. The attitude taken is similar to that of cars but the difference being that by law car manufacturers have to supply bits from the last day of production. How about doing THAT.

  If upgrading were easy then your comment would be possibly valid, but it is not, also stuff does not run on 10.

   I could go on but realise that not everybody is using a 2017 car, has a 4 bedroom house, and getting a salary of say $60,000. 

For information 7 had so many problems it was taken off sale in some areas and did not go on sale eg France until mid 2010. Even then in many areas Vista was on sale for another year due to problems with 7 as someone who has built and installed quite a few machines found that new machines with manufacturers warranty and boards made after jan 2011 were sold with Vista so that brings it down to about 5 years. Or are you suggesting that the suppliers never got the Vista from MS. Mine was from 2008.

  Thank gawd for AVG and spysweeper.

windows vista support has already ended, I cannot get vista updates.  I downloaded the vista update files, told these are not valid.

I agree wholeheartedly with those who have already commented.  My Vista 64 desktop computer was purchased brand new from Best Buy "7" years ago, and that in fact makes it 10 years NEWER than the 2000 Chevy Impala which I still CHOOSE to drive.  The difference is .. as Rogerinfrance  (above) so aptly pointed out,  I am still able to safely drive my beautiful red car because I can easily obtain OEM  parts for it right down to the smallest screw!  and "after all these years" ...

STANDING BY YOUR PRODUCT  frankly, is something that comes with the territory for virtually all responsible product manufacturers .. certainly that I've ever encountered in my lifetime.  Those who didn't or don't, generally aren't around to talk about it for very long.

Mr. Andre Da Costa (MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional), Insider, Community Moderator,  Wiki Author, )as for justifying Microsoft's actions by citing  .."Redhat, Ubuntu and other major developers "  do the same thing.... (choosing not to live up to their end of the bargain you mean??)  ...  perhaps that's why I chose a Microsoft product at the time .. because I mistakenly thought that Microsoft WOULD stand by it's consumers.   Lesson learned. 

JanetPhad   &   philstilliard,  's    (above)

comment on an additional  obvious deficit regarding the inability to install security updates LONG BEFORE the proposed termination of support re: Vista.  I can almost guarantee you that a great deal of time and effort went into trying, in vain, to figure out the presumed problems behind the hundreds of "failed" update attempts.  I certainly know that I amincluded in that wasted time .. and frankly I resent it.

I can see that you're an accomplished man, Mr. Da Costa, so you are probably a reasonable one as well.  If you would be so good as to advise your peers, on our behalf,  that there are many of us out here "hanging" because we're trying to conduct business just like you are .. and will be greatly handicapped by your company's actions. Don't you think at least partial assistance toward the purchase of one of those more up-to-date devices to which you refer might be a nice gesture for our troubles ... now that Vista "has had a good run" as you put it ... for YOU guys!?!

I have no doubt that you know how to reach us ..

Thanks for listening.

Hopefully you are of course making it that those with Vista can just redo Vista if they have the disc and not make it that one cannot do a reinstall. To stop the reinstallation of the software in the event of a glitch will certainly put MS in the "F U I am a bxxxxxd". Having only run Vista for the aforesaid 7 years it pales into the verge of taking the michael when one considers that I run a series 2/3 land rover and can still get parts (1969 109 soft top.) and still do repairs. Sure it does not comply with current emission status, but are you aware of the ecological impact of scrapping it and buying something not as good, for a lot more money, that does not what i want to do. OK so charge for the update if you so desire, but better would be to make sure that updates work with all your previous fare. Lets be honest, some things like replacement lamps, tyre, fan belts and the like are still available for cars 80 years old, is it too much to ask that MS allow newer programs to keep on running as some programs developed for Vista, and I have 2 that I paid for will not run on later versions, yet in conjunction with MS were not even available for several years after Vista became available. It is bad business to upset those that have habitually used your products, a very good way to encourage a new competitor on the block and certainly encourage a migration to a newer competitor who may have learnt lessons!

Just something that is passing my mind. Take empires, Greek, gone and now in a state of just Greece hanging on, Rome, Italy is in the Merde, so is France, and Germany lost hers. The UK is about to commit Hari Kari and is now about to fall on its sword to the extent that the Union jack be a thing of the past. Businesses are the same. MS will soon break up again with bits hanging in and on like skype. (I was one of the first to use skype using it some 12 years ago on dial up XP and with my name as the about 600,000 user.) Other bits like OS will be phased out and all software self starting without an OS like one from a certain Tandy electrical store some 20+ years ago. In fact a computer professor who I showed it to felt that eventually it may be more reliable than the then 3.1, he used it a lot after I showed him it.

Incidentally, updates currently are coming through for vista, my machine is still getting them. If you are not as of Mar 4th 2017 then you have other problems.

Having paid for Windows Vista, shouldn't users be able to download updates?  in fact updates to Vista are already disabled, I tried and tried, but no updates were found.  If enough users complained to Microsoft would they be embarrassesd enough to offer Vista updates?

Microsoft stopped my updates also months ago, very annoyed.  I have complained but they just direct me to the forums.