"Vista is Dead" Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing at eWeek.com, rings the death bell for Vista: "Goodbye Vista. It has not been fun knowing you. I predicted that Microsoft was giving up on Vista in January. It seems I was right. Microsoft's own top brass had hated Vista when it first came out, why should they expect anyone else to like it? Vista SP1 has proven to be a painful upgrade and its performance still lags behind XP SP2 and, the still unreleased XP SP3. Worse still, from a Microsoft executive's viewpoint, Windows is actually losing desktop market share to Mac OS X and Linux. Microsoft never loses desktop market share. But with Vista Microsoft is finally losing customers."

My take? It's too early to tell. There are many power users that love Vista. Further, it runs pretty well on newer hardware. If Microsoft kills XP, Vista is here to stay.