RIP, Vista (For The Most Part)

So I woke up this morning (after falling asleep early last evening -- My Fucking Father called for me through my bedroom door because both parents came up to eat something; he didn't seem upset at the time, but this is one of those cases where he will bring up "not having a schedule" and use it against me some time later when he wants to yell at me for not being a grown-up like all the other 41-year-olds, like a passive-aggressive cocksucker), decided I should blog post for the day (I am going to the Timberwolves game tonight, but don't tell Father, shhhhhhhhhhh) and I see that, after months of warnings, Microsoft has finally stopped providing security for Windows Vista as of April 11, 2017.  Let the record show.

I have had big problems with my laptop (the one that I'm using right now, for this) for several years.  But it's due to old age, a worn-out processor, and the path towards failure that inexplicably began when I bought a battery online and essentially ruined my computer.  I don't think much of it breaking down had anything to do with the operating system.  And I know that it will go down as a vilified detour in the evolutionary chain of Windows OS, but the bugs that made people hate Vista never really affected me, a guy who uses the Internet a lot but doesn't play games or watch movies on it.

So for the past month or so I have relied on free antivirus support for when a day like this finally comes.  The problem -- and I think I have told this before -- is that I have to bring it down in order to successfully connect to our wi-fi.  I'm so scared now that Vista isn't supported by Microsoft that whenever I do that, I feel as though I'm stepping out into the middle of The Purge.

Last (Monday) night, while helping Mother with some stuff she needed to fax, I took Father's junk Dell catalog.  I've been thinking about getting a new lap for a while, and for a while I've had my eye set on an XPS, specifically the cheaper XPS 13.  I can get it for $720 if I buy by early May.  I don't know if I have the dough for that right now, but this move by Microsoft adds more pressure to finally move on to a new computer, one that has Windows 10 and is more stable than what others believed Vista to be.

At any rate, RIP, Vista.  You never did anything wrong to me.