15th December 2011, 3:36 PM
Not really. It basically tweaked the user interface in a number of ways, added DX11, and had a vastly improved built in driver database so people didn't need to hunt down drivers as much when upgrading. There are a number of other "under the hood" enhancements, but that's basically all it is. As I said, Vista was the complete rewrite, the total shift from the framework of XP. 7 basically just smoothed out the rough edges. Again, it's akin to the difference between 98 and 95, or any two editions of OSX.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)