A Posteriori

1) The Wii outsells both the PS3 and XBox 360 in 2007 (each, not combined).
2) Apple makes a major push for the gaming market, releasing their own killer app game that does for Macs what Halo did for the XBox.
3) One major record label will give up on selling only DRM’d music, and will license the sale of their content in MP3 format
4) Leopard will allow multiple OS’s to run real-time, and enable fast switching between those OS’s.
5) Linux GUI developers start abandoning GTK and Qt in favour of OpenJDK Swing to do their development, at the same time submitting fixes for Swing to run better on Linux.
6) Firefox development stagnates even further.
7) Consumers reject HD-DVD and BluRay.
8) Thin clients finally start taking off due to SOX and regulatory compliance/security/cost issues, with Microsoft as a possible vendor.
9) At least one Linux distro tries to completely “imitate” OS X
10) Vista sees no uptake significantly beyond new users being forced to buy it for new PC’s and any corporation that needs its DRM features.