The NYT article was typical FUD. Vista will STILL suck in 3 months; 6 months; 12 months; 5 years. The only thing keeping Macs out of Enterprise are the un-retired DOS-fossils who see job security in supporting the unwieldy Beast known as Windows. Apple can create the way out of that morass, but you can't "make the horse drink". Enterprise will be a big market someday, but not this year, and probably not next. I think an Exchange-killer from Apple would help; I think, given a few days effort, they could crank out a superior mail server.
This is classic top-down versus bottom-up. As Carl has said, make a product consumers want to buy and eventually corporations will listen. The vote is still out but the early trend seems quite clear at this point.
In my company, virtually all the top execs use Macs. Windows users have IT support while the Mac users generally support themselves. How long will such a trend last? We aren't far away from critical mass at my company.
I suspect that Microsoft has lost its momentum which got started with the phrase "Nobody got fired by buying IBM." Microsoft did not gain its monopoly through the excellence of its software. It got it because the IBM compatible computer manufacturers needed a one-size-fits-all operating system. Then, those manufacturers competed with each other on price, processor speed, compatibility and the features on a checklist. Quality, flexibility, ease of use and panache were left off that list. But, that marketing scheme has about run its course.
As the consumer side of the computer market surges ahead of the business side then appreciation for Apple's virtues increases. When you buy a computer for yourself, rather than let an IT department buy it for you, you want to use a very different checklist.
Lately I'm seeing more DVD movies with an Apple laptop as the computer of choice. I'm guessing Steve Jobs joining the Disney's Board of Directors (2006) is beginning to pay off. Apple branded computers in future movie scenes will only increase. Just wait until a hit summer movie begins to show an iPhone used by the "hero" in the storyline. Especially if it does something that smartphones can't do!
Try the new fall show in the U.S. called Journeyman. The hero uses an iPhone and it loses it's connection when he is transported to non-GSM SanFrancisco of 1987.
In the near future people will not only want Macs ... they'll demand them. 
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