>Vista was hot garbage. An unoptimized mess rushed out the door. 7 fixed all of Vista's issues and improved the interface.
On a good day it was hot garbage. File drivers were absolutely wrecked, and I think I also remember the 32 to 64 bit slide being during that time. I didn't especially like windows 7 either. XP was the top of the mountain for windows, which was really more like fixed up NT.