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It's time for Microsoft to kill Vista Home Basic

It's been well over a year since Microsoft launched Vista, and it's time for Microsoft to finally pull the plug on Vista Home Basic. Retailers hate it, users are annoyed and frustrated with it, and it's outgrown any initial purpose it may have had.

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resistance1006646d ago

I have never understanded MS move to included striped down versions of there products. Both the CORE 360 and Vista basic are a waste of everybodies time

Darkiewonder6646d ago

Because the things that's in it isn't worth the price and to go better is either pay for an upgrade or just use a different OS all together.

ReBurn6646d ago

The last two PC's I've purchased with Vista I've replaced the OS with XP. Vista just does not run well to me.

SaiyanFury6646d ago

I agree ReBurn. My laptop came with a factory installation of Vista. In 2 months it ate my anti virus for no good reason, and prevented me from reinstalling it, and it ate my touchpad drivers. I then installed my own copy of XP on it and haven't had a problem since. I also tried Vista twice on my PC that's very capable of running it. I could never get my soundcard to work very well in Vista, and that's with the most current drivers available from Creative Labs, the people who make my sound card. After the crap I went through with Vista, I gave my installation disc to my brother in law and went back to XP Pro. I would rather put Mac software on my PC than Vista again, and that's a heck of a statement; as I would NEVER put crApple software on my PC.

season0076646d ago

i do, and if vista run slow on your computer
get a faster one, its not like a NEW one is a fast one...i still see a lot of deal lately online installing vista on sucky computer

Vista NEED 2gb ram at least, DUAL CORE processor is a must, and well if you can afford a little more, use RAID 7200/10000 for desktop and one of those 7200rpm or solid state hdd for laptop....

ReBurn6646d ago

If that's the case then they shouldn't sell it with computers that aren't capable of running it. That's misleading to consumers.

eagle216646d ago (Edited 6646d ago )

And your post screams that you care less about consumer value. He also mentions a lawsuit of how Microsoft misled consumers. I know you mean well, but you don't have to read every article on N4g.com or the internet.

Darkiewonder6646d ago

There's a program that they link for people that are thinking about trying to run vista on their current computer. It checks to see if you have the memory/processor/graphics card capable of running vista. if not, they can upgrade whatever they want, if possible, to make their system be able to run it.

xplosneer6646d ago

It said I could run Vista well on my 512MB DDR2 RAM 2.2 Ghz P4(no HT), and a 5500GT Nvidia. Yeah....right.

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Phil Harrison Mk46646d ago

...the xBox360...
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-D

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai24d ago (Edited 24d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio24d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing24d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9224d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit24d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing24d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9224d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."