To me it's so bleedin' obvious that I will never, ever willingly buy another piece of MS anything. I just picked up a Chromebook Acer C7 partly because my old notebook is just not hacking it like it used to (Win 7 Pro came preinstalled) and I wanted to steer clear of Win 8. Lo and behold, ChromeOS is actually really great, and is improving rapidly. I also have Ubuntu installed on it but haven't felt the need to boot into it. MS can see what's coming.