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Windows Vista

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Windows Vista

Unknown year Proprietary commercial software Active

Operating system entry sourced from Wikipedia: Windows Vista.

Key specifications

Family
Windows
Type
Desktop
Kernel
Hybrid, NT
License
Proprietary commercial software

general

Developer Microsoft
Final release Service Pack 2 with May 2019 security update (6.0.6003.20512) / May 14, 2019; 7 years ago (2019-05-14)
Free HDD space 15 GB
Generalavailability January 30, 2007; 19 years ago (2007-01-30)
Graphics card Super VGA
Kernel type Hybrid, NT
License Proprietary commercial software
Marketing target Consumer and Business
Memory 512 MB(384 MB for Starter edition)
Official website Windows Vista, Wayback Machine
Optical drives CD-ROM
Others —N/a
Preceded by Windows XP
Processor 800 MHz
Released tomanufacturing November 8, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-11-08)
Source model Closed-source, Source-available, Shared Source Initiative
Succeeded by Windows 7
Supported platforms IA-32, x86-64
Total HDD capacity 20 GB
Update method Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, System Center Configuration Manager
Userland Windows API, NTVDM, .NET Framework

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Performance profile

Catalog-derived scores for comparison — not benchmark results.

Security 64
Performance 46
Compatibility 60
Ecosystem 82
Modern support 78
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