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The problem wasn't really vista, but rather the industry itself. XP was a very lightweight operating system for the features it provided, and prior to that Windows would be considered unusably basic to modern teenagers. When vista came out it introduced a lot of new, specifically UI features that had never really been seen before, and the people providing hardware didn't upgrade their machines to match the new requirements. The result were machines designed to run windows ME trying so hard to push through vista. Those people who spent the extra money and got the beefier machines didn't have nearly as many issues as those who didn't.

Definitely so with a system that's designed to accommodate It. This can be said for all OSes.

Having said that, I did come across a few users who complained of It's stability on a system that could well and truly handle It at the time. I didn't experience anything of the sort.