Thanks.
There was an interesting comment from "localroger" April 25, 2009, 10:18am, down at the bottom of your link.
I know a few people who are really well connected in Fortune 500 IT circles,
and they tell me to a man that *NOBODY* is planning to move to Vista or 7 (by which they mean *NOBODY* running a very large corporate IT enterprise).
They tend to have corporate security models including stations locked down in various ways that work,
deployment models that work, drive reimaging procedures that work, standard desktops and toolsets that work,
and legacy code that works, much of which DOESN'T work in Vista or 7.
This is the reason you can still get an XP box -- MS keeps raising the bar for it, but corporate just keeps paying the freight.
So this is MS next move, to try to slide these guys into 7 by letting them virtualize their XP model.
The problem is that while this will solve some of the IT guys' problems (legacy apps, desktops, maybe security model)
it will not solve what is probably the most important problem to some of them, deployment and drive reimaging.
Also depending on how easy it is to break out of the emulation sandbox, they may not be happy with the security model either.
When you are talking about pretty much rebuilding a network with 100,000 machines,
paying an extra couple of hundred in blackmail per box for MS to let you keep using what you know works
makes a lot more sense than jumping off into the void.
MS may overcome some of the corporate reluctance with this ploy, particularly at smaller companies,
but I don't think it's going to crack the egg they need to crack.
I think this is pretty good insight on some of the problems with Windows 7.