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Originally Posted by HarryT
I very strongly suspect that if you gave a Windows 7 user access to a Vista machine it would take them a long time to realise that they weren't using Win7. The main problem with Vista was that a typical PC of the time wasn't up to running its GUI.
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I know in my experience with Windows 7, and Vista both, as a non user (I prefer Linux with KDE or IceWM), is that Vista was a lot more heavy handed with some of its practices. On the few times I had to use a vista machine, it kept asking me if I was sure I wanted to do things. Also, the way things were arranged wasn't always logical. Not to mention performance issues. It was well documented at the time of release, that the minimum requirements of a machine to be Vista Certified was lower than generally recommended, and so many machines ran like crap with Vista out of the box. For 7, MS took all the best parts of Vista, and just fixed the problems. Vista SP1 also fixed a LOT of problems.