I used Vista for awhile, mostly because I got a free copy of it through my school. I only ever ran it on an above average performance PC, and it ran OK except that it used way to much RAM. If I ran it now, it would probably run just fine, but back then 4GB was a lot of RAM, and my games took a performance hit. So I eventually went back to XP. Vista also tried to enforce hardware acceleration via features like Aero, and most standard office PC's at the time lacked any significant GPU processing power, because they simply never needed it.
Windows 8 is trying to do something similar by pushing towards a touch interface, in a world where most PC's don't have touch screens... And it's just plain gawd-awful annoying trying to us the new start menu with a mouse and keyboard.
Windows 8 is trying to do something similar by pushing towards a touch interface, in a world where most PC's don't have touch screens... And it's just plain gawd-awful annoying trying to us the new start menu with a mouse and keyboard.