Based on my admittedly shoddy memory, I believe most of the hate against Vista was due to its early release and lack of drivers with moving to a new model requi

Based on my admittedly shoddy memory, I believe most of the hate against Vista was due to its early release and lack of drivers with moving to a new model requiring signing. This broke a lot of legacy drivers and thus the hardware no longer worked without the manufacturers providing an update. I was mostly on newer hardware so didn't have the compatibility issues a number of users experienced with that migration.