Windows Vista, released to consumers in 2007, was widely disliked for its User Account Control prompts, driver problems and heavy hardware needs. By 2010 it was already being replaced by Windows 7 on new PCs and ran only around a tenth of desktop web traffic.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Version
- 6.0
- Released
- 30 January 2007
- Type
- os
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