Microsoft stops Tuesday with the support for Windows Vista. So there will be no Service Packs anymore for the operating system, while new versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported.
Security updates will still be made for users of Vista, at least until 2017. The stop of the ‘mainstream support’ applies to all versions, it appears from a table on the site of Microsoft.
The end of support means that there is no new designs and features to the operating system are added. Also in the development of new software, including updates for Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and other Microsoft software, is no longer taken into account with Vista.
Vista appeared at the beginning of 2007 as the successor of Windows XP, which is more than five years earlier, appeared. Vista brought a lot of changes in the interface, such as the introduction of a search bar in the start menu and in various system applications, such as the control panel. Also the 3d version of the Alt-tab function was introduced in Vista. Many consumers were faced, however, with non-working peripherals due to a lack of drivers. Partly because it has Vista a much worse image than the predecessor XP and successor Windows 7, in October 2009 came out.
Users of Windows XP receive a further two years of security updates. The mainstream support for XP ended in 2009, but as of 2014 are also security updates, not for this operating system, according to Microsoft.
