Financial pain is the best teacher in business.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-wind...op-7000014075/
Still does not repair the unspeakable app-system. They really should split the OS into two independent versions, one for tablets and smartphones, one for PCs. Have the PC-version with the changes rumored above. Free it from this app-system customer hostility. Make it traditional like W7 in style in handling, with the new and advanced security technology of W8 running under the hood.
May not give MS the needle it wants to slam into the veins of the customers to keep them on the drip and suck their blood as they want. But maybe would reverse the negative trend MS has faced in the past 6 months, and which obviously has made the financial damage felt to them now - and the whole PC industry. Recent drops in notebook and PC sales for the most are attributed to hardware being sold with W8 preinstalled. Which means: something preinstalled that people simply do not want to have and pay money for - only what Microsoft wants them to want, for its own convenient profit raise.
I wonder how long Balmer will live in office? He messed up big time with W8.