The Borg is widening its Vista-to-XP downgrade program, due to heavy demand for said downgrade among hardware makers. See here. Money quote: “While there is always resistance by some to move to a new operating system, there appears to be particularly strong demand, especially from businesses, to stick with XP.” Of course Microsoft still insists this thing has been a huge smash hit. Yep. Huge hit. Huge. Meanwhile Ballmer is throwing chairs at a lifesize Jim Allchin doll. That’s what we heard, anyway.