Au contraire, I believe it does. Casual market is where the money and the masses are. Think windows beat Unix by being more technically advanced? Nope, it was easier to use.
I'm a techie and believe me I hate the casualization of technical things, but it does do a lot of good though (so I'm not too upset). Look at Xbox 360 it was losing to the Wii in sales until this year. And finally in North America they are beating the Wii in sales....guess what they did? They went casual with it. Kinect is selling like hot cakes in the morning and it's 100% casual (so far). But if everyone ends up with a kinect I'm certain there will be some hardcore games that come along.
I’m not sure I get the windows hate. I’m now running windows 7 and I love it. Even Vista was pretty good. In the 3 years I ran Vista I only had one serious crash and infection and that was just this year.
Compared to XP, that’s miles better reliability. I really couldn’t understand the dislike for Vista, and I started with SP1 and upgraded to SP3. Even SP1 was different than XP, it was much more stable.