Jessica

Windows 7 represents a maturation of the Windows Vista code (as it probably shares 85-90% of Vista's code anyway) that is 3 years overdue in my opinion, and for the fact that it has exactly the same features as Vista, it performs far better on low end hardware.

Windows Vista however, in my opinion is now however still a very good and usable OS, but I don't really think that it will ever recover from the bashing it took, and my personal opinion is that the vast majority of Vista users will move over to Windows 7 quickly, and that Vista use will dive in the next 1-2 years probably even below Linux and OSX

mldebo

My personal suggestion to you is that you wait with vista and upgrade ti Windows 8.. As you rightly said, Windows 7 is 80% same as Vista.. So its worth waiting for Windows 8!!

Kishore

Vista & Win 7 have a completely different logic approach and this is what will frustrate most users.

Example: Google 'searching in Vista' - you will find millions of people complaining bitterly that Vista's local file search does not work - i was one of them.
Only last week my son showed me why i could not get search to work in Vista (as Windows 7 uses the exact same logic approach). It is a COMPLETELY different way of doing things.