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We have to stop quoting each other. My mouse scroll wheel is begging for mercy.
People are going to love or hate a Microsoft OS regardless, even if it told you the winning lottery numbers for the next day's drawing. The point is "people" get their opinions from "people" rather than using their own brains and first hand experience to develop their own opinions. Vista's only issue when it was released was that hardware manufacturers weren't ready for it due to their own laziness. If you bought a new Dell, for example, with Vista, and it had no drivers for the Nvidia card and shipped with 512 MB of memory, it is natural to assume the OS was crap. Vista is how you could identify someone who knew tech or just followed other sheeple. When Jay Leno makes tech jokes in his monologues...it's proof that the mainstream society was falling for what "experts" told them.
In truth, once the hardware support was there for Vista, it was actually a decent OS. Windows 7 came along, and partly due to public perception, and partly due to it being a quality product, it took off. Windows 8 is suffering the opposite. When you follow a bad product...it's easy to look good. When you follow a great product, it's easy to look bad.
No where will you catch me saying Windows 7 is a bad product. It's the best Windows OS to date. Windows 8 is still new and users are still getting used to it. It's a little early to be passing final judgement on it, but it's not a step down from Windows 7. It may not be a step up, either, but that's the point. It's different...and that doesn't mean better or worse. As it stands today, there are 2 quality Windows OSes out there. That's good for us, as a tech industry.
For me personally, I am a fan of both. I have the tower in my details that will likely stay with Windows 7 for now. I have an HP Envy 4 Ultrabook, and I'll be upgrading that to Windows 8 shortly, probably over the holidays when I have some time.