Sorry but Valve has been on a smear campaign to slow Windows 8 adoption for one reason, Microsoft will own the store and the keys. So I'm immediately skeptical

Sorry but Valve has been on a smear campaign to slow Windows 8 adoption for one reason, Microsoft will own the store and the keys. So I'm immediately skeptical of any information they put out there. A lot of their grumpy comments sound very similar to Sierra Games of the 80s and 90s that resisted the jump to Windows from DOS. I do think this push into Linux is great for making Linux a richer platform overall. This way, everyone wins in that case, but I still do not see it an overly successful monetary venture. If Windows 8 is a failure, people will either stay with what they know (Windows 7/XP) or continue to defect to OS X. Microsoft doing what they always do, will see where they need to improve, and continue to iterate and push out a more polished Windows 9.