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Vista had better features and stuff, but people hated it because it was a huge jump in needing extra resources and any mid tier or lower laptop that came pre-installed with it the first year was underspecced for it, so it ran like turd on those and sucked away gaming performance on everyone's rig.
The changed the driver model and broke compatibility with any device that didn't get updated drivers. Which created a fuck-load of ewaste and unnecessary expenditure as people had to replace otherwise functional devices.
It also ran like absolute dog-shit even on PC's that exceeded the recommended requirements by fairly significant margins.
And until Vista SP2 came out, it remained a buggy, broken, mess of an OS.
Also, given the promises Microsoft made about Project Longhorn (Vista's cancelled predecessor) and the several years worth of delays Vista had Microsoft had no excuse for releasing an OS that was buggy, poorly optimized, and incompatible with most hardware more than two years old. Vista was supposed to release in 2003, it came out in 2007.
Windows 7 was what Vista should have been and what Windows should have stayed.