What's really interesting to me is the trend that all these OEMs just don't fear Microsoft anymore. That coupled with the fact that people are using all kinds o

What's really interesting to me is the trend that all these OEMs just don't fear Microsoft anymore. That coupled with the fact that people are using all kinds of non-MS mobile devices mean that they don't tie their very survival to the whims of Redmond, so they feel emboldened to really try things that would be unheard of in the past. Things like Linux laptops that they actually promote, and actually acknowledging that Windows 8 is A UI pile of poo publicly, these are all moves they wouldn't have made back in the day when MS was the scary juggernaught and Windows was the only option anyone even considered.