Vista wasn't as bad as the moaners made out.
Windows 2000 was better than 95/98/98SE/ME. NT4 was the one that no games supported.
As you seem convinced that Microsoft make a good OS and then a bad one then Windows 8 is more important for you than it is for someone that will actually run it.
If you try to get used to it, you'd have noticed it's actually quite good. Although even Microsoft aren't suggesting that everyone should install the release preview on their everyday machine.
Vista ?? On an business network environment was a pain and hence why i stayed with XP even for personal computers. Win 2k was good but not for everyday use that's why most people stuck with win98se.
Win 8 is not important to me at all and i did spend time on it enough to know it is not worth upgrading for my business clients and home users without a lot of pain and which also doesn't bring that much more then win 7 compared to XP to win 7. I have had the beta on 2 test machines and i know enough to NOT to bother upgrading to it at any time soon.
But to each his/her own... but like i said for me it is not even worth pirating.
