>>but I do believe that MS will have a greater piece of the pie than what's being projected...I guess we'll find out soon enough.

I suppose you're better positioned to know some of MS's aspirations, but so too are the major hardware brands on whom MS relies. Take a look at what the main hardware crowds are doing, starting with HP, IBM/Lenovo and Dell. Even Asus that was saying Windows for its next slate as recently as June this year is now saying Android.

The Windows brand is looking staid- sort of like the Oldsmobile of the mobile OS roads, nice brand with plenty of prestige but not where the excitement lives any more.

I have nothing against MS- sheesh, I'm on record thanking them for allowing Fox to persist as long as they did- but they seem to have dropped the ball on this one. Or maybe they deliberately walked away, deciding that the mobile OS arena is going to be cheap and cut-throat with the main value residing in the backend infrastructure anyway. As you say, I guess we'll find out eventually.