Yours is the first opinion I've read of someone preferring Vista to Windows 7. Win7 is pretty much superior to both Vista and XPSP3 in almost every way, though

Yours is the first opinion I've read of someone preferring Vista to Windows 7. Win7 is pretty much superior to both Vista and XPSP3 in almost every way, though especially from a usability and secuirty perspective. It's actually not all that different from Vista in my experience (and you can make it look like Vista pretty easily, if the color scheme bothers you). Windows 7 likely is the next XP - people will stick with it for 10+ years if they can. In fairness, I gave up and switched to a Mac.