Ever wonder why so many people seem to have such a low opinion of Vista? As we've noted before, Vista certainly deserves some of its criticisms, but you'd think from the seemingly endless drubbing it gets in the press and blogosphere that it's single-handedly responsible for the mortgage crisis, the war in Iraq, and ABC's cancellation of Pushing Daisies.

So what's behind all this backlash? We've rarely seen the situation summed up as well as at Train Signal Training, where writer Brian Nelson explains the Top 10 Reasons People Hate Windows Vista. Here's #1:

We Fear Change A great deal of the griping about Vista comes from the simple fact that it is different. Users complained bitterly about "losing" files which were simply placed in a different location. Let's face it, putting anything and everything inside My Documents was starting to wear out its welcome, and while power users may have been well aware that My Documents was under the Documents and Settings folder, not everyone really ever grasped that. The new file locations make sense once you are willing to learn something new.

He shoots, he scores! In his nine other reasons, Nelson points to things like UAC, performance, and driver compatibility, and identifies why these issues just don't hold water. A more accurate title for his piece would be, "Top 10 Misconceptions About Vista." (Hmmm...reminds us of our own Top Five Vista Misconceptions of 2008.)

This is another good bit of reading for any IT managers or execs who won't buy, say, the latest Dell Latitude simply because it comes with Vista. Let's all try to remember: Vista did not bring down the Titanic.