Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place. Sell competitively priced to boost the Win8 RT platform and Win8 tablet ecosystem generally and it kills the OEM

Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place. Sell competitively priced to boost the Win8 RT platform and Win8 tablet ecosystem generally and it kills the OEM market. Keep the price high and profitable and have a walking wounded platform being propped up by the desktop Win8 ecosystem but with touch/tablet functionality as an afterthought in many apps unless a vibrant competitively priced OEM environment arrives quickly. I won't pretend that I know what they should do but I'm not sure there is a safe path down the middle.