[efjay]

I thinks its more a case of Vista's initial perception as a failure leading to being regarded a failure in other areas. It runs well now with few problems for the majority of users, so why is it still regarded as a failure? Obviously due to impressions formed when it was first released and didnt perform as well as it does today but those biases cannot be/are not easily changed and so Vista continues to suffer from that initial backlash which will obviously have a knockon effect on other aspects eg sales and so Vista continues to be perceived as a failure.

As for capable hardware, my hardware ranges from a Celeron 585 with 3GB(1GB) ram, Core 2 with 4GB(2GB) ram and Athlon LE 1650 with 1GB or ram. Figures in brackets are the original shipped memory and they ran well before the upgrade and better after.