Analysis: Apple's impending assault on Windows 7 will be drowned out by the noise and thunder of the Microsoft distribution machine.

"Tarnish" -- it's one of those words that IT journalists like to use when a particular industry luminary gets soiled by bad news or a product release blunder.

Most recently, the term has been applied to Microsoft -- as in, "can Apple tarnish Windows 7" by seizing on the bad taste left over from Windows Vista. Some pundits are arguing that yes they can -- that Apple might seize up to 30 percent of the market as a result of all of the bad press surrounding Vista's failure and now the rocky Windows 7 upgrade path faced by XP users.

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