alt Hacker NewsWindows 7 was effectively just vista but enough time had passed that the required hardware to run it was easy to get a hold of.
The biggest problem with Vista is you had a lot of Windows XP computers running happily on 256 and 512MB of ram. That made updating to Vista REALLY painful to a lot of people.
I think people forget about how little resources 95, 98, and XP needed to run.
XP was also criticized for being a hog when it first came out. People viewed Windows 2000 as being the good windows right up until memory became more abundant. You couldn't run XP on a machine with 64MB of ram, but you could run windows ME and 98 on that same machine.
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noahbp • yesterday at 8:36 PM
I don't think we should excuse Microsoft for bloating Windows because memory became abundant.
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>Windows 7 was effectively just vista but enough time had passed that the required hardware to run it was easy to get a hold of.
Not really, Windows 7 had a lot of work poured into it, fixing Vista issues. Even first public betas of W7 were more polished than any of Windows 8..11 releases. That includes work on minimal amount of "noise" notifications, driver issues, speed, design etc