>As they say in science, the animal is always right. Meaning it doesn't matter what you or I or Victor may think: if it doesn't happen in real life, the idea is wrong. In this case, W8 is a flop despite anecdotes that can be traded back and forward. Blame the users if you must, but meantime the stampede to Android gains momentum and even is coming to a desktop near you. Basically Android is to Windows as Windows was to DOS- didn't kill it overnight, but the market made the mental switch and never looked back. The only difference is that they both aren't MS products this time.

From that POV PRISM and their european colleagues were the best thing MS coud hope for: they teach not to put too much [trust] into the cloud and keep one backbone uder your control... But that might be Linux as well, for backdoor fear reasons.