I am glad that you are a lest you giveing win 8 a look and said what they have i been saying that even inbedded win 8 can be modidfied to accept cross paltform progarming. I have been trying to tell every one that win 8 will hopefully be on my next phone,tablet and P.C. . It would be nice just to go from one device to the next and not have change os each time .Or at lest how it looks and feel .Every time i talk about all I get is apple and who needs quad core phone or tablet . i will tell you me so i can be anywere and do what I at home .Wach T.V. ,have access to my data thats on my P.C. frome games to documents .See I beleave in the cloud but only if it is my cloud.