Windows 7 was basically lipstick on a pig, being a mostly warmed over version of Vista. Or how everyone hated XP until about SP2 when it finally started to stabilize a little. People seem to forget how for literally YEARS with XP there would be some new remote exploit that needed to be patched basically every week. It vastly improved security compared to XP, driver model was overhauled and hardened considerably, it was the first version that could distinguish between multi-core and multi-CPU (a subtle but important distinction), they rewrote the entire GUI using DirectX so it could take advantage of hardware acceleration, etc. The much hated Vista was an absolutely necessary overhaul to major chunks of the OS. There have actually been quite a few very important updates made in Windows over the years, but since they're all related to things most people don't find very interesting, they don't get mentioned a lot.
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