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I wouldn't go so far as to call vista dog-shit and then recommend 7 in the same breath.
They're basically the same with 7 being the feature equivalent of a service pack.
Vista isn't that bad, either.
XP has stone-age memory management. (this is not a reference to the 4gb limit, but to how it actually MANAGES the 4gb)