Sorry, Melikia, I couldn't disagree more. I have two computers, one XP and one Vista. I find Vista much faster and more stable than XP. I didn't have any problem whatsoever with Vista.

The so called problems with Vista was mainly derived from lots of negative hype created by Mac fans, it has very little truth to it. All statistics of bugs and patches are far better in Vista than in XP, with the same "age". Sales of Vista are much higher than XP's, with the same "age". Etc, etc. No matter how you look at it, Vista is better than XP.

You might know about the famous Mojave experiment, where Microsoft called a group of Vista critics, people who really said highly negative remarks about it, and called them to test the new Microsoft operating system, codename Mojave (or Mohave? am not sure). Anyway, these guys loved Mohave and said it was much better than Vista. Finally, it was disclosed that Mohave was just Vista, exactly Vista, with another name. So, rumours do influence one's judgement.

This is a bit like the blind taste of cola drinks. As you might know, in a blind taste experience, Pepsi generally beats CocaCola but if the consumers know what they are drinking, they prefer CocaCola.