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Windows 8 is good but 8.1 one will be better from what I gather Microsoft is going to go to a yearly cycle with windows. In todays world that is the only way I think they can stay in the market. If they start selling windows licences for $15-20 a pop with an upgrade every year costing around the same.
But even then the thing is what OS your computer is running is becoming irrelevant to most people so is microsoft with it. Microsoft biggest customers are enterprise and selling licenses to them makes them a lot of dough. But with faster internet and local networks even that is going to become a shrinking market. Most corporations will shift to dumb terminals that run what ever app you want but all the processing power etc would be in the servers. The cost savings from computer maintenance, power bills, new machines and windows licenses will be to large for them to not to.
I think intel is already facing similar problems with people not wanting to upgrade their pcs every 2-3 years as the one they have already do what they need them to. And with Arm processors getting into servers they will start loosing the server market like they are loosing the mobile market unless they come up with something revolutionary. IBM moved to the server market years ago by selling out its consumer division HP and Dell are also moving towards it and cutting their consumer products.
So what we are seeing is not the end of Microsoft but the slow death of Windows and native os in general. That is a future I am scared off as to me in that future opensource will die small time developers will become irrelevant as most software will run in the cloud that means only large corporation like Google, IBM, Microsoft, Apple will be able to run or afford to run large servers for any software to run.
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