This article is pure FUD. Sure adoption of Vista is slow, but so many mission-critical applications are built for the Windows platform that businesses won't be moving away from it any time soon. Not until there is a sane upgrade path or they are finally forced to invest in something new (be it a rewrite, etc.), which realistically could be decades for some.
The majority of home users still run some flavour of Windows, and likely don't have a reason to upgrade and won't until there is a compelling reason to do so. Processor speeds and RAM sizes are "good enough" for most users now, and have been for the past couple of years.
Windows as a fashion is definitely passé, but it won't get thrown out like your old Vaurnet T-Shirts and Bugle Boy jeans...
Which is why they advocate a backward compatible virtualization module for win32 compatibility. Either way, Microsoft has to take a more modular approach if they're going to sustain backwards compatibility and continue innovating in future OSs. The effort to remain backwards compatible has outstripped the effort to innovate. Vista is the proof.
The majority of home users still run some flavour of Windows, and likely don't have a reason to upgrade and won't until there is a compelling reason to do so. Processor speeds and RAM sizes are "good enough" for most users now, and have been for the past couple of years.
Windows as a fashion is definitely passé, but it won't get thrown out like your old Vaurnet T-Shirts and Bugle Boy jeans...