Rather than succumbing to feature creep - Microsoft's habit of throwing hordes of extra features at every new release of its products - Windows 7 is, if anything, suffering from feature shrink.
Windows Vista probably had more opprobrium heaped on it than it truly deserved, but if there's one area where the OS merited every last anger-filled adjective, it was ease of use.
It's hard to find fault with Windows 7: Microsoft's latest OS delivers on ease of use, performance and features - a far more impressive effort than Vista.