No. Most of the issues were:

- The new device driver model. OEMs were late to get on board, and were reluctant to support any but the newest hardware, so a lot of hardware got orphaned

- New security model. Overly intrusive UAC (largely fixed in 7), folder/registry remapping and security restriction enforcement. These caused a lot of early app incompatibility

- As far as usability goes, consider Win7 basically is "Vista done right". So the differences between them were problems with Vista

The effect of the Apple ads was to get potential buyers to talk to their favourite geeks - "Is Vista really that bad?". The answer would usually be "Well, ...". Happened a lot with me.

>Most of the issues with Vista were due to Apple's very clever marketing of "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC". Vista was never as bad as the ads portrayed it to be, and hence the public perception. If Apple is smart, they'll do it again for Win8
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>>I agree. I've been calling it Vista II for a couple of weeks.
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>>I call it that because Microsoft is shoving something down customers throats that they do not want and have been very vocal about since first public beta - just like Vista. Somehow they completely ignored the fact that doing a Vista resulted in an OS that was largely skipped by potential customers. Here we go again.
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>>At least 8 is fairly usable and has some performance improvements over 7, so there is some offsetting value to the metro interface.
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>>I'd put odds on Win8 SP1 adding the start menu back to the desktop.