I'd be wary of proclaiming this as "the beginning of the end", as the article title seems to imply. There were two things wrong with Vista: 1) issues with 3rd

I'd be wary of proclaiming this as "the beginning of the end", as the article title seems to imply. There were two things wrong with Vista: 1) issues with 3rd party software & drivers, and 2) steep hardware requirements. The first was due to enhancements to user accounts & security, and is largely fixed today. Anyway, people aren't going to be using Windows XP for the next 5 years, so they'll switch en masse to Windows 7 or to OS X. Apple still isn't competing at the lower price points, so unless Windows 7 is just really bad, I think we'll see the numbers pick back up when Win7 comes out.