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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
I did not notice nor hear of any reliable reports of resource problems with Vista; I ran VMware on a Vista machine with no problems.
The main Vista issues for general users were, I think, that Microsoft changed the Start button from a button with "Start" written in it to an orb, which created a big outcry, and the intrusiveness of User Account Control asking for permissions.
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Not quite. One of Vista's main issues was BSODs. They were pretty common until service pack 2 came out. What killed Vista was a lack of reliability more than aesthetics. I personally ran into BSODs on it, once after doing an update (it rebooted into a bsod and then booted OK when restarted) other times just out of nowhere.
This was on a laptop bought with Vista, so it wasn't due to aging hardware either.