Windows Vista

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  • Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates stands in front of the Windows XP logo
    In list of Windows versions: Windows Vista

    Vista experienced a troubled rollout and was met with considerable marketplace resistance, quickly acquiring a reputation for being a large, slow, and resource-consuming OS version. Microsoft’s security advancements, designed to improve the user experience instead led to frustration…

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Windows OS

  • Bill Gates unveiling Windows XP
    In Microsoft Windows

    …succeeded in late 2006 by Windows Vista, which experienced a troubled rollout and was met with considerable marketplace resistance, quickly acquiring a reputation for being a large, slow, and resource-consuming system. Responding to Vista’s disappointing adoption rate, Microsoft in 2009 released Windows 7, an OS whose interface was similar to…

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