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When Vista came out it was a half-baked system with missing drivers, very slow user interface, fully loaded with DRM crap...
On the top of that it was very resource hungry and you basically needed a very fast computer to run it. This limited the market for it and, to make things worse, Micro$oft decided to label computers with low specifications as Vista compatible to increase profits. Of course Vista would run like a dog on them leading to lots of complains...
Things have improved a bit with the subsequent service packs... but it is still a very resource hungry and slow OS.
Windows 7 is something like Vista SP3... with fancy user interface and less memory hungry but basically the same deep down.
But instead of releasing it as Vista SP3 Micro$oft saw a great money making opportunity and has turned the Vista mistake into a Windows 7 success. Basically they waited for the drivers to mature and hardware to catch up and made a huge advertising campaign... which seems to be working well.
What happened with the new technologies Longhorn was promising to bring???
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