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My idea behind the Xp Vista thing was that Xp was the first major OS adopted by consumers. While it was great OS, vista was due to take a hit as people we're afraid to move from what they knew. Next up was Microsoft's poor idea to keep the OS in the dark. Most developers heard to late about it coming out and did not have times to create new drivers and patches for good products. Next major hit to it was the fact that Microsoft was trying to push the market to new levels. I remember our family Xp system had 512MB ram. It ran fine, it was a major system to have 2GB ram. Now you look at systems. I have a nice laptop with 4GB ram running windows 7. If it was not for Vista pushing the market down in prices we would still be at 1 or 2 GB ram.

So I would say the reason Vista was hit was for the lack of time developers had to patch, and the market still being fresh with the requirements Vista needed. Which left a bad taste even after Vista started to caught up at the end.

Windows 7 on the other hand had a long beta so developers were ready and the market was also ready as the cost of making ram and other products are rather cheap now. Thanks to Vista's Fail we now have a OS that makes us smile again when we boot up.