You forgot to mention how Vista skyrocketed the need for higher CPU/GPU/RAM resources, too, compared to XP (which also skyrocketed resources compared to Win98).
I'm inclining to believe this was on purpose, and not just in a "we just want to make the OS prettier for users" way. I think there used to be a theory that Microsoft did this to help PC manufacturers and chip makers sell more hardware, too.
Microsoft's mistake was that the resource requirements were too high compared to XP, so like 90% of the PCs running XP were useless when running Vista.
I'm inclining to believe this was on purpose, and not just in a "we just want to make the OS prettier for users" way. I think there used to be a theory that Microsoft did this to help PC manufacturers and chip makers sell more hardware, too.
Microsoft's mistake was that the resource requirements were too high compared to XP, so like 90% of the PCs running XP were useless when running Vista.