> Because it only offers a marginal improvement of XP. I get your point here and I agree, but... in many ways, it was not only not much better than XP, but qui

> Because it only offers a marginal improvement of XP. I get your point here and I agree, but... in many ways, it was not only not much better than XP, but quite a bit worse. It took more memory, it crashed more often, it didn't run with (whatever peripheral you have that worked fine before), it was slower, it moved things into other places you couldn't find them, etc. With that going against you, you have to REALLY step up other areas to compensate, and as you say, Vista simply didn't. Or, it was to reset the bar so low that Win 7 could do almost anything to be considered "great"... =) (No, I don't believe that.)