>>Case in point, I noted a few years back on upgrade patterns with SQL Server, as MS went towards more frequent upgrades...
Fair enough, you had enough detailed knowledge and industry insight to predict the flow. It happens. Not always, though. E.g. if you run a cycle shop then you expect to meet more people who think bikes are better than cars. You'd want to wait for more data on that one. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
