[aryayush]

Oh c'mon, narangz. It is a well known fact that Vista is generally hated throughout the tech community. Almost every tech pundit out there has blown it to bits in his/her review and insults for Vista are used as comic relief in reviews of other products.

Vista is a failure, and a very public one at that. There's not a shred of doubt about it.

Personally, I don't see how it is any worse than previous versions of Windows but, in general, everyone else (specially Microsoft's installed base) seems to think it is. Maybe, with the resurgence of the Mac (and Mac OS X), people are just starting to realise how much better desktop OSes can be. Maybe Vista really does suck more than XP did.

I don't know. But I do know that Vista has hurt Microsoft more than it has benefitted them.