, AndyC wrote

Can't help but think Gates was probably spot on the money by putting an end to it somehow. Wheter or not Sinofsky's attempt with Windows 8 will do better is a whole other question of course.

Define "do better" - I'd like people to stop claiming certain releases of Windows are a "success" simply because of high sales - I'll need them to show that they weren't sales Microsoft would have gotten anyway simply by virtue of Microsoft's latest OS being the default OS for the majority of computers being sold.