"There are myriad of other manufacturers who are making Win8 devices both phone and PCs/tablets." Uhm, yeah.. That's... puhhh... Nokia... HTC... probably some

"There are myriad of other manufacturers who are making Win8 devices both phone and PCs/tablets." Uhm, yeah.. That's... puhhh... Nokia... HTC... probably some HP and Dell? But how much effort will they put into Win8 devices? Nokia is near-death, HTC is focused on Android, even Dell will have more Android devices then Win8 ones (i guess). Most likely (and this is another point the article doesn't mention) Microsoft will throw some billions and billions of dollars at the problem to gain traction (as did with the Xbox, the Xbox wouldn't have been a success without Microsoft subsidizing every new xbox) and then we will see if it sticks. It can become a second Zune.. or a success. Right now they don't have much on the plus side.