Vista to win 8 (or 8.1) through copy and paste?

I read that a number of discussions on this forum on the use of sophisticated wants to migrate my files Vista to Win 8 or 8.1.   I actually tried via a restore to Win 8 since a key backup to Vista, and it failed.  My supplementary question has not helped to do the work or the other.

So simple question: why can't I just copy my files from the Vista machine and paste them into the Win 8 machine (or 8.1) - otherwise said, My Documents, pictures, Favorites, etc. ?  I understand that I need to download or to get, my old boot disks, PROGRAMS that will use these files, but beyond that is there any difficulty?

Your user folder and Public folder (if you have data stored there is as I copy):

So I copy the following text:

WALT C:\Users\

Pubic C:\Users\

Don't copy the entire user folder, just copy specific folders, if there are other active accounts on the computer, log on to the account and copy it manually.

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