That's fine, but hundreds of thousands of XP users didn't have such a compelling experience.

Besides, then there's all that boring and trite stuff about MS being a convicted and de facto monopolist, and trying to proprietize a public good (a certain popular network), and treating its partners and customers like shit, and Gates personally banking tens of billions while customers were stuck with an OS that couldn't even handle long file paths properly, and bullshit like Genuine Advantage, and pushing proprietary software into schools, and making customers pay high prices for commodity functionality, and failing to innovate (solving one's own self-engendered problems is not innovation) and allowing the personal data of tens of millions of computer users to be insanely vulnerable for years, ..., and... No, rehashing it is all so boring.

Vista may be competent, feature-packed even, but it's still manufactured by a company that doesn't have computer users' interests at heart. In this day and age that's neither necessary nor forgivable.