When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience. Instead Vista got a mixed reception, and a barrage of criticism over how bloated it was, over hardware resources consumption, over hardware and software incompatibility issues, over poor support, over the nagging User Account Control, etc. Everything that didn't tic to perfection in Vista was dissected and thrown to the dogs. And Vista made it easy... Microsoft's own customers' satisfaction studies for Vista indicates that potential buyers failed to warm up to the latest Windows client. The same is not valid for end users.

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