Because Vista requires at least 2GB of memory and/or a complete machine upgrade. When it came out virtually no one (other than gamer geeks) had a machine capabl

Because Vista requires at least 2GB of memory and/or a complete machine upgrade. When it came out virtually no one (other than gamer geeks) had a machine capable of running it. The press was so bad that few wanted to. Even now I see machines with only 1GB of memory and Vista, and I have seen friends of mine sold laptops from reputable companies like HP with only 1GB of memory. Those machines do not work in any way shape or form how a new machine in 2009 should work. And then there is netbooks which can really only run XP partly because they only come with 1GB of memory. I think this combined with as the article said there is really nothing new in Vista that people really care about. For most people typing facebook.com in somewhere, is all they want from their home PC.