It will be interesting to see how they price Windows Blue updates. I've read, and it seems clear, there won't be Service Packs anymore. Between annual updates and Windows update, you can get what you need.

>Not clear if they plan to have a 20-50$ per year update for the shortened circle. What-ever won't sell each year. Barring XP users might let them slip off the MS hook.

Ed Bott of ZDNet wrote that the death of the PC is a mirage. While sales of the PC and traditional laptop are decreasing, sale of Ultrabooks is going up and the trajectory of ultrabook sales will more than make up for declines elsewhere.

>I looked and found it better, but not compellingly better to switch in phones. Perhaps using tiles via MSTSC might change that in a few months. In the meantime PCs are getting squeezed like middle level HW was when those pesky little 80386 were beginning to swarm. As long as there is no better experience checking out the WIntel system from WP8 there is not enough to pry me from my comfort zone to a WP8 phone. MS is loosing it at the "personal" front, and they have to stem that tide as cloud backbone more often is linux based. No idea where future revenue should stem from.