MICROSOFT is finally pulling the plug on one of its most disappointing

HASTA-LA-VISTA: Much-maligned Microsoft Windows platform to be killed off within a month

One of Microsoft’s most hated ever products is to lastly be killed off, the company has confirmed.

With Microsoft Windows 10 now the company’s established operating system of selection, and another major update within the works, the Desktop large has confirmed it is to stop supporting older platforms.

On the chopping block is the a lot maligned Microsoft Windows Vista operating system that was initially launched back in January 2007.

Vista support isn’t simply on its manner out, it’s already in its closing days, with Microsoft confirming it’ll fully stop supporting the platform within a month.

If, for some purpose, you’re nonetheless utilizing a Vista-powered machine, the all essential date to add to your diary is April 11.

After then, Vista machines will fail to add additional updates and won’t receive any more security patches.

The platform will even lose update access to Microsoft’s antivirus app, Security Essentials, which means machines might quickly become the targets of hackers.

These operating Vista are suggested to upgrade their system immediately or danger being unprotected against potentially damaging cyber attacks.

Vista was broadly criticized from day one, receiving low scoring reviews and failing to grab customers’ imaginations.

In addition to being extra clunky and tougher to use than the company’s previous platforms, Vista additionally came in for criticism for failing to address customers’ needs.

Having killed off a variety of favorite processes and apps, Vista changed them with a mass of pointless bloatware that triggered many gadgets to run slowly.

Amazingly, current Net market share figures have proven that around 0.78% of all units operating at present are still powered by Microsoft Windows Vista.

Whereas that may sound like a small quantity, it still accounts for hundreds of thousands of units.

It’s not simply Microsoft that’s ceasing assist for Vista, either.

Mozilla recently announced that Microsoft Vista customers would soon now not be capable to download or use the newest versions of its Firefox internet browser.

This follows Google’s transfer to halt support for older Windows platforms for its own Chrome browser.

Whereas Windows Vista is on the way out, however, Microsoft Windows 10 is on the way up and presently powers greater than 500 million gadgets.

This doesn’t make it the preferred platform around although.

As an alternative, that honor belongs to Microsoft Windows 7 that continues to power almost half of the world’s PCs, with a dominant 48.41% market share.