I have Vista and XP running with VMWare, and can run them as well as OS X simultaneously. I've never had to do anything on a PC I can't already do with a Mac, but that's me. As far as I'm concerned, the glory never faded.

I work in education as the campus "Mac Guy". From my perspective, it works for most; and I hear more "switchers" praising than complaining where I work. There's like a 1-2% return-to-pc rate over the course of 3 years. I deploy about 120-160 Macs each summer. Half of the ones returning to Windows are from people that get promoted or transferred to a new department that requires a PC. Most are unhappy with that rule, but diverse enough to not care about doing what it takes to get paid.