My dislike of Vista is from personal experience. I am not a huge Microsoft hater or anything, Windows 98 was pretty rough, but I thought ME was great, and I'd go as far to say I loved XP. I have never had a hard time getting anything to work under XP, its compatibilty mode has always worked for me to get programs to work on it, and for the rare few that had glitches, I'd use virtual PC. It also ran OS8 beautifully through Basilisk II, which I used for all my old Mac programs.

Vista, even with all the bells and whistles turned off, is a slow piece of crap and a resource hog. Its "security features" (though they can be turned off, most people don't know how) are incredible annoying. "Oh, what? You want to open this program? Are you sure about that? I mean, really, really sure about that? It might not be a good idea, it could cause the end of the universe or severely alter space and time, are you really sure you would like to open this program? Are you an administrator on this system? Oh, you are? Okay, you can go ahead and open this program, so long as you are sure that is what you would like to do. You are sure about this aren't you? For my part, I don't think it is a very good idea, but I am just your computer, what do I know? Shall I open this program for you then? I wouldn't if I were you. Well, if your mind is set on it I guess I am going to open this program for you, that is, unless you care to reconsider"

"Allow, allow, allow, allow, just open my damn program already!!!

So, yeah, I have been less than impressed with Vista on many aspects based on my own experience. I have no idea what the "blogsphere" says about it, but I am not surprised if they don't like it, as I did not.