Why does everyone seem to hate Vista but love Windows 7?

[M31]

I know people who have never tried Vista but hate it, such people are very impressionable, They read the blogs and 500th hand story's from others and perpetuate the myth.

I also know someone who has tried Vista, used it for a few hours and condemned it, despite him thinking himself a computer wizard, he fails to understand that you need to tweak any OS (and this will go for Win 7) to get the most from it.

Some people refuse to re-asses an opinion on something, sure when Vista came out, it could have been much better, XP was the same ... but it matured in to a very fine OS, you tell them that Vista 64 after SP1 and especially SP2 is a very fine OS for gaming or whatever, and they just roll their eyes ... this is very closed minded indeed, IMHO.

To those comparing Win 7 Beta, to how Vista was out of the box are not looking at the bigger picture, if you were to look at Win 7 Beta as Vista SP3 (that is probably a more accurate picture) then of course its going to be better Except MS get to make more money this way by branding it as a brand new wonder OS.

Dont get me wrong, I like Win 7 too and will be buying it, but Vista 64 SP2 tuned to my needs is now a very good OS indeed and makes even Win XP SP3 (tuned to my needs) finally look positively clunky, dated and definitely slower in modern and even slightly older games on the same machine.

I think the Vista witch hunting is now fast approaching Urban Myth status and Rumour Control needs to be called to set the record straight

[BobyTT]

I had Vista from day one. Never had any problems. Never understood those people who claim that hate vista. Simple as that.

[lawrywild]

I had Vista from day one. Never had any problems. Never understood those people who claim that hate vista. Simple as that.

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Using up characters so I can post this..

[3Z3VH]

Only thing I hated about Vista, and now hate about Windows 7, is that you have to go through a LOT more dialogues for things that were simple tasks in Windows XP, like enabling a disabled network connection... In XP, all you did is right-click My Network Places, click Properties, and Right click the connection name and Enable. Now you have to wait for an entirely different dialogue to come up, and click Manage Networks in middle of all that.

The Windows 7 Control panel pisses me off quite handily as well, since they no longer have a "Classic View" and you have to guess which section the control panel you want is in, then go to your control panel, rather than just double-clicking the one you want.

It's little things, but it does annoy the crap out of me.

[ex2cib]

Only thing I hated about Vista, and now hate about Windows 7, is that you have to go through a LOT more dialogues for things that were simple tasks in Windows XP, like enabling a disabled network connection... In XP, all you did is right-click My Network Places, click Properties, and Right click the connection name and Enable. Now you have to wait for an entirely different dialogue to come up, and click Manage Networks in middle of all that.

The Windows 7 Control panel pisses me off quite handily as well, since they no longer have a "Classic View" and you have to guess which section the control panel you want is in, then go to your control panel, rather than just double-clicking the one you want.

It's little things, but it does annoy the crap out of me.

in the control panel, change the "view by" to small or large icons. No categories then, works much better

[p0opstlnksal0t]

I used vista on my sis's laptop a while back. didnt like the layout and change from xp. but i used 64bit vista and changed the theme to classic windows and really like it. now i have win 7 64 bit and like it just as much! very fast! but i really like the virtual pc and xp mode, so for me win 7 is best