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Originally Posted by code-frog
The fact Vista is number one invalidates this guy as being credible. He hopped on a bandwagon here. Windows 98 and ME had huge problems. Vista was just ahead of it's time. If you put Vista on a box ready for Vista it's a solid platform and as good as it gets. The fact people think Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't further proves the point. The difference between 7 and Vista are so mall I don't even know I'd call it a service pack as much as just the natural evolution of the code base of Vista combined with user feedback.
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I agree with your technological assessment, but the fact is, Vista failed. It was not a viable upgrade for so many XP users. There was way too much hardware already out there that couldn't handle it, too many peripherals that had no Vista drivers and too much software that didn't work on it. It was great for new high powered machines with newer devices attached to it and software written after 2005 or 2006. Anything else and you were taking a big chance.
XP Virtual Mode in Win7 proves the point. Even Win7 cannot fix the ambitious changes in Vista, so for companies and Ultimate users, you can virtualize XP and run the app or hardware in there.
Should Vista be #1 on the list? Maybe not, but it absolutely belongs there. No one will be running Vista 2 years from now unless they are just technologically incompitent. Everyone will upgrade Vista to Win7 within 18 months of its release, or even sooner.