Is Windows 7 really Vista SP2 in disguise?

Win 7 NOT Vista SP2

My new computer, 64 bit arrived with Vista Home Premium, I it bought to run a specific piece of hardware, my XP machine was a bit too slow to run a Firewire mixer, well Vista wouldn't either, no good 64 bit drivers and other things I found out, everyone, including the mixer company, kept telling me Win 7 would be the BIG solution I needed, so after waiting from August 15th until November 24th, I found out it wasn't a solution to anything, it's actually even worse, and Win 7 won't even run a lot of software that Vista would. I mean IF it was Vista SP2 then it shuold have been more and better not less and worse. Well shouldn't it have?
M,I think, just chopped at Vista with a really dull rusty meat cleaver, trying to remove the problems Vista had and hit some of the good parts too in the process, I never had any other real problems with Vista beyond the mixer one, and I ended up now with something far far worse.
Now I'm facing major time to reverse this fiasco up an upgrade or should I call it a downgrade, first I have to buy another hard drive for clean install of Vista, and spend hours deleting all the garbage, again, from the in essence restoring it to the day one condition I'm forced to do, then hope I can copy everything over. Then reinstall all my programs. And then spend more money to buy a 32 bit machine with XP Pro so I can finally use the mixer I bought last May.
Think I could send M$ a bill for what they are going to cost me? I should, and bill them at a Bill Gates level of pay for an hourly rate.
But here is the Question I keep having.
Why can't Micro-$oft hire good programmers like Mac and Linux seem to have working for them? I mean it's not like they couldn't afford them, is it?

You're right, to have used

You're right, to have used Windows 7 from the Release Candidate version, I can confirm that this OS is only a Vista SP2.

I tried Windows 7 final version and the conclusion is the same : the beginning is fine, quick, but more and more and slow after installing all applications I use...

From Vista (that I bought 400$ arghhh), for me, it's always the same end : Back to Windows XP, there is no doubt, it's the best Windows OS.

Photo proof Windows 7 is Vista service pack

Yes after trying to install defender in win 7 home premium I was surprised to see a dialog box open up and say Windows Defender already comes with VISTA no need to reinstall.

Photo of proof is at my web page on Google

http://sites.google.com/site/windows7isavistasevicepack/

Windows 7 is a lot smoother

I have 2 GB ram, dual core processor, Nvidia GForce (something). It runs aero perfect! Windows Vista would crash on the sidebar and not display properly, Windows 7, the gadgets are fine. I'm sure you get what I'm saying, Windows 7 is a lot smoother. Microsoft must of done something. And for once I can say I am really proud of Microsoft. It's nice to be able to upgrade to Windows 7 and use the same hardware and games, with no need for a compability mode. Well done Microsoft! Windows 7 is a keeper! (unlike XP which I always try to get rid of!)

How could a responsible

How could a responsible journalist write an article about a service pack, that at the time of writing, was barely being coded? Or compare it to an OS that was still in its infancy. There was also so little information about either of these, to barely even begin to try and draw any comparison. Please stop trying to stir up crap before there is anything to stir. I am not a huge supporter of Microsoft, but can recognize progress when I see it.

If Windows 7 is Vista SP2,

If Windows 7 is Vista SP2, then what's Vista SP2?

BTW, comparing XP SP2 to any other SP2 is pointless. XP SP2 was a one time thing unlikely to ever be repeated. MS realised they had a major problem (whether PR or a real problem we'll never know) because of security and needed to fix it so they dropped basically everything to fix it. Don't expect that to be repeated

Thank you for a great

Thank you for a great article, you express my sentiments exactly. I am furious to think Microsoft is going to ask me to pay another $200 bucks for a renamed copy of Vista. I loaded Windows 7 and really could not find any difference from a user experience; Windows 7 was slightly, slightly faster, but not appreciably. Vista has gotten a bad reputation because of the driver issues in the initial releases. Microsoft has obviously decided to bury Vista by renaming it Windows 7. It's enough of an insult to make me seriously consider going to Apple's OS, I wish Apple would license their OS for the Intel platform and give the public a choice and give Microsoft some honest competition. I used AT&T’s System V Unix in the 80s, when you look at operating systems you would think we would have progressed further than this for all of the man hours and millions spent.