I never used Vista much(not a regular Windows user as such), but another reason why people might hated Vista with such passion was perhaps that most of the hard

I never used Vista much(not a regular Windows user as such), but another reason why people might hated Vista with such passion was perhaps that most of the hardware people had was not sufficient for it. At least that was one major reason among many people I knew. Windows XP ran just fine even on 128MB RAM and Pentium III processor, however Vista required around 2GB for some decent performance. There were many people using considerably old boxes.