Are PC Manufacturers Killing Vista ?

So far I have been relatively fortunate and managed to steer clear of Vista both at work ( where requirements to run applications that do not work with IE 7 mean Vista is a no go zone ) and at home. Apart from a couple of weekends spent recently helping an uncle setup a new Packard Bell PC that came with Vista pre-installed and a few attempts to install the early betas of Vista my knowledge of Microsofts latest OS has been acquired virtually entirely through media and web reviews and commentaries.