Of course they're not going to acknowledge poor speculative reporting by some blogs/magazines. Plenty have written the counter-piece. Windows 8 has sold over 10

Of course they're not going to acknowledge poor speculative reporting by some blogs/magazines. Plenty have written the counter-piece. Windows 8 has sold over 100M copies despite the decline in PC sales. They don't run the industry, they just sell operating systems and office software. There's little they could do to change the fact that if you already have a PC that you bought in the past 5 years or so, it's just as capable as what's on store shelves now, so people are not running out to replace them for no reason. That, along with the greater time spent on smartphones and tablets, is what's caused PC sales to slow.