Granted, it's no surprise that a ZD-Net publication is heralding the arrival of windows8. ZD-Net has been a Microsoft shill for as long as I can remember. The brutally honest truth is that real CIO, CTO etc. etc. other technology managers are not going to be rushing to adopt it. It simply too expensive to implement, retrain and attempt to convert existing applications and infrastructures to meet yet another Microsoft Hack on top of hack on top of hack.