While Win8, is a short trip into the tall weeds and in between them all was Vista - again no actual new features or improvements just bloat and failure.
Win7 has nearly no improvements over Vista. But Vista made numerous improvements over XP.
That "numerous improvements over XP" may be true in your world, but it is hard to see from an end-user perspective. I am looking at a just recovered "Vista Home Premium" Toshiba laptop with 1.73 GHz "Genuine Intel(R) CPU", 1 GB RAM and a 120 GB HD sitting on my desk running a defrag before being returned. This is a fresh install to "factory condition" with updates applied to clean it up for transfer to someone else from the original owner. It is DOG SLOW, even with a "factory condition" reinstall just completed to a wiped HD! Another laptop with generally the same specs was in here for service previously with XP sp3 on it. From this (my) end-user perspective as a "PC fix-it" guy, XP installed to "factory condition" with updates applied was much faster on similar hardware. Getting stuff done faster with XP and not having to wait on the spinning hourglass is "better" as far as I am concerned. Of course, 7 would not do well on such "low-spec" hardware either.:)
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While Win8, is a short trip into the tall weeds and in between them all was Vista - again no actual new features or improvements just bloat and failure.
Win7 has nearly no improvements over Vista. But Vista made numerous improvements over XP.
That "numerous improvements over XP" may be true in your world, but it is hard to see from an end-user perspective. I am looking at a just recovered "Vista Home Premium" Toshiba laptop with 1.73 GHz "Genuine Intel(R) CPU", 1 GB RAM and a 120 GB HD sitting on my desk running a defrag before being returned. This is a fresh install to "factory condition" with updates applied to clean it up for transfer to someone else from the original owner. It is DOG SLOW, even with a "factory condition" reinstall just completed to a wiped HD! Another laptop with generally the same specs was in here for service previously with XP sp3 on it. From this (my) end-user perspective as a "PC fix-it" guy, XP installed to "factory condition" with updates applied was much faster on similar hardware. Getting stuff done faster with XP and not having to wait on the spinning hourglass is "better" as far as I am concerned. Of course, 7 would not do well on such "low-spec" hardware either. :)