Isn't it funny that usual suspects who have recently launched the products for the coming holiday season have begun reporting their sales numbers, all except Nokia and Microsoft apparently?

Why is that? Why is that even though expressed in percent their sales could be extremely big (of course, irony aside, when you start at zero, your growth numbers are always big).

Isn't it telling that all Microsoft has to say is that the most recent keynote from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is up for anyone to see, and that if you pay attention you see that Windows 8 and Surface are pigs : buggy, slow, crashy.

Let's add to this that by mimicking Apple without the legitimacy, Microsoft wants software developers out there to submit their software for approval in the Windows store, the sole location where software can be downloaded and installed, even tough the obvious problems : why should Microsoft have a say in all this ? why allow Microsoft to deny approval of a software based on some arbitrary government law, arbitrary competition, etc.

This has the painting of a disaster in the making all over it.

I pass.