Originally Posted by
mixture
A lot of things are "very poor with Vista"
Hence most people will tell you Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.
Yes...and no.
Windows 7 is definitely what Vista should have been, but Vista suffered greatly by poor initial perception.
It is inherently the same underlying codebase as 7, but unfortunately for Microsoft when they gave it to the User Acceptance Testing group they had obviously outsourced it to India or something, as it got signoff without thought.
This led to the early adopters saying: "I was waiting so patiently for Vista and thought it was going to be the next best thing, but it annoyed me"
...which led to the mainstream saying: "It's a POS, avoid" (mainly from those who hadn't really used it to any great extent)
However, run the same code, with tweaks to remove/dampen-down UAC, etc, through a proper UAT process, and you come up with Windows 7....which is what they did.
Vista in itself isn't inherently poor, it's just that the good bits are masked by what's bad about it (as per the above).