[citation][nom]techcurious[/nom]You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about! Vista was extremely buggy and unstable when it came out, had poor driver support for anything but the most common hardware, and was much slower than XP.When windows 7 came out, it supported most hardware natively, even if it was to at least offer basic functioning of that hardware until newer drivers were downloaded from windows update. It was extremely faster than Vista and even faster than XP when using new hardware! (And, for any wise asses out there, I do mean compared to running XP on the same new hardware!) And on top of all that, Windows 7 was Rock Solid Stable from day one! Vista achieved stability after the first service pack, but it still remains slower than XP and Windows 7.All these reasons is why I only tried Vista and quickly returned to XP (and then only get to use Vista on client computers) but I didn't hesitate to switch over to Windows 7 as soon as it hit RTM and have never looked back! Vista was always frustrating with driver issues and bluescreens, Windows 7 was a dream to setup, configure and to use!These are the real reasons so many people hated Vista and so many loved Windows 7. (Most of the people who don't hate Vista are people who didn't get to use it until it was already on it's first service pack a year later).[/citation]
Vista's driver support was a bit lacking at the beginning but it ran perfectly fine as long as you didn't have a 5 year old computer after SP1. It ran much faster than XP in just about anything if you had decently enough hardware. 4 gb of ram was all you need for vista to feel perfectly smooth and it had much better hardware acceleration for multicore threading and disk caching. Everything feels much smoother than on XP so long as you are not hitting the ram wall.
I never did have a blue screen with vista using it for 3 years, on xp I had multiple blue screens due to simple memory errors from sleep mode. Switching to 7 I didn't feel it was any different than vista, the only real noticeable difference was the ram use was lower when you had nothing loaded but it didn't ever matter to me, unused ram is wasted ram.