Quite possibly.
(NB: I know I’m months late, I’m only popping in briefly)
I do think part of it though is that some applications didn’t run well on Vista and they wanted to increase volume of Windows 7—something that seems fairly logical.
Tried the beta—not bad, but still prefer Solaris 10 myself. Heck, if I could get Photoshop and iTunes 9 (for an iPod Touch) to run, I’d be running it solely...