Why do people love windows 7, but hate vista?

Microsoft did not give any information about most of the changes they made from XP to Vista. So nobody could prepare drivers. Apart from that they made no allowance for even recent software, a lot of it would not run. They offered no support for this. It was unstable and insecure. They actually were trying to introduce similar practices to Unix systems as those are far more secure, they got it totally wrong. Updates regularly broke newer software, including programs people had bought to replace software that would not run on it when it was released. And it seemed they could never answer any question about the problems. Almost identical problems to Windows ME, which they dropped immediately and changed to XP but they get everyone else to pay for their mistakes. Which was why so many people turned to Linux distributions.

I never had any problems per se with Vista (until the computer it happened to be loaded on caught fire - but that wasn't Vista's fault:-). Vista was s....l....o....w and took forever to boot up. I'd press the power button and then walk to the kitchen, put water on to boil, get my French Press ready with coffee, pour the water over, wait a second, press, pour into a cup, add milk and sugar, walk the cup o' coffee back to my computer and would only have to wait a minute or two for the computer to be ready to use. Vista ran programs slowly. It did everything at about half the speed my XP machine did them. There could have been a problem with my computer but, since I do research jobs that usually involve huge Exel or Access files, in those days, when I bought a computer, I bought the "top of the line" in terms of processor and RAM. (The Vista computer was the last one I had to buy "top of the line". I don't need the processor or HD speeds, RAM, etc. of a gaming computer so now I can buy a tad below the "top of the line" but still a relatively speedy i7:-)

I remember a little bit about the months before Vista's release. Microsoft had bought a new and wonderful OS-in-development from Texas Instruments called "Longhorn". Everyone was raving about Longhorn's potential to completely change the world of PC OS's. MS rushed development, seemed to have cut the good parts of Longhorn off at the knees and released "Vista".

One of the problems that new operating systems always face are the changes. Not only in the way the GUI (graphical user interface) looks, but also in the changes in the background controls. With Vista, there were other major changes that required allot more system resources. XP would run on one half to one gig of ram, where Vista needed a minimum of one gig and two gigs was much better. Vista also tented to crash and freeze to much. That was repaired with the first service pack, but by then the OS had a bad reputation. And then to, XP was still working quite well and many simply remained with the old OS instead of learning how the new one functioned. You got to remember, Vista was quite a change from XP. There are still allot of nay sayers even where it comes to Win7. But there are allot that really like 7 but still bang of Vista. Win7, for the most part is Vista, just cleaned up quite a bit. Personally, I think Win7 is the best OS ever built and released by Microsoft. Oh, Linux and Unix are very good operating system, but they just don't seem to fit in the popular world, but are very good for running data based applications. I've been running 7 for over three and a half years, and so far I've not suffered not even a little bump in the road.

Now we have Win8 to deal with. My opinion on this new release is mixed. For tablets and larger cell phones, it's just fine. But for power users like myself, it's clumsy and slows down production. And again, it's a big change for Win7, so you are hearing allot of flack about it too.

I think allot of the negative you always hear about new operating systems is simply human nature.

I could go on but I think you get what I'm saying.

Source: Certified computer repair tech, and power program user. I've been working and repairing computers since Windows 3.1

Windows 7 came out later than vista. You can get better things for Windows 7. I think Windows 7 is a cross between Vista and XP. In my opinion that is. There's not much to say though because some people just prefer 7 rather than Vista.