I have to take this announcement from Microsoft - that they will not be supporting EFI bootup with Vista, and will instead rely on the creaky old BIOS - as something of a good sign.

Why? Well, stop and think about it for a moment - it means that Microsoft actually considers Apple to be a viable competitor. The only reason for them to make dual boot a pain is to keep Apple software off of systems that have Windows. They realize that dual booting into Linux is irrelevant - Linux on the desktop is a non-starter. Apple though? Clearly, they think that might be a problem.