Do the business need eye-candy? to buy much more expensive machines for that?
The Ultimate questions lay upon how user friendly the alternative will become for office employees, and the war among the nations of computer administrators among high-end or budget oriented, whenever the gap between rich and poor widen, the budget oriented nations will win the market and so does the choice of their operating systems.
As technology vastly eliminating jobs from people who are ultimately users, market of its own. The upcoming might be like this, as a designer of system which helps the user to accomplish the most without eliminating their jobs will win, and for that approach, model will no longer be mass productive, but much like the open source model.
So in final word, I don't know how Vista can survive, but I know by wealth today it will be around for maybe a year or so, for long, its wealth will not last.
I only say this now just so it is now too late for them to change anything,
even if they can, they will suffer a big price for that, and if they do
we are all will be benefit from it. That's what a human should do.
Perkin Ho