First and foremost, it's Microsoft, so yes, I'm afraid that's reason enough to shun Windows 8. Fool me twice and all that. That aside, the fact is that we need

First and foremost, it's Microsoft, so yes, I'm afraid that's reason enough to shun Windows 8. Fool me twice and all that. That aside, the fact is that we need source code, with an FLOSS license, for the full stack. Yes, it matters, otherwise we'd be happy enough with Android. Judging from past sabotages by Microsoft, I really, really doubt their "HTML5/JS" apps will be portable/cross-platform (eg, just wait until they start "deprecating" standard functions in favor of their "safe" Windows specific library calls).