I can't help but feel that they are leveling the books on any bad or potentual bad area's and might even put all the Win8 production costs into that quarter as

I can't help but feel that they are leveling the books on any bad or potentual bad area's and might even put all the Win8 production costs into that quarter as well. Motivation being that you have win8 and other goodies comming out and your now in a more comfortable position to imply look the news windows 8 must be good as we have not made a lose this time. That is nomater how well sales actualy go. I suspect the upgrade price is tempting for people to try dual booting it as a alternative to there current flavour of windows choice and trying it out. But clearing out any damaging impact onto the accounts and bunderling them into one bad month prior to your new OS will only help make the new OS seem better that it may or may not be. This and cheap upgrade price I suspect I can see how the next quarter goes and how that can only help promote windows 8 at a share level as apposed to user level. Which they cater for with a cheap upgrade price. Also better to get a bad period out of the way now before RIM falls as the bad market internet will suddenly all turn onto Microsoft as its next target to say is doomed. Sad how markets work nowadays.