Nowadays everything goes through the search pages of google, thats why business everywhere spend milions on SEO and SEM. What will happen in an App store centric world?. Take for instance the travel industry, which relies heavely on online marketing. In the coming years the users would switch from searching for travel offers through google, to using their preferred travel apps. With the added benefit that apps have the potential to be more attractive and dynamic than HTML/Ajax websites. I think in the coming years there will be a transition, a switch from the browser to the app store as a mean to access the internet.

I think they should but an start button on the Win 8 desktop, let corporate users customize if they prefer to bootstrap metro or desktop style, and call it a day. For the mobile and tablet markets, I think Win 8/RT is a winner. Clearly superior to Android, if you ask me.

Sort Of. You can execute CLR applications, but using the WinRT library, which is not the same as the ASP.NET we're used to. Currently you can attach the WinRT library using C#, C++ and JavaScript.

This is completely unaccurate. Windows RT supports applications build using WinRT, which is the planned substitute for the current Win32 API. Windows 8 Pro supports WinRT and WIN32. Current desktop applications are build upon WIN32, but as time passes more applications will run on both OS, because they will be using WinRT. For more information, look at here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime. Windows RT has nothing to do with running on ARM. In fact, there are plans a future versión of Windows RT running on Intel Atom.

If we're talking about US vs europeans, pls explain to me why someone should trust those that in the last century had still colonies all over the world and started two global wars, the last one with a genocide. Sigh, I'm from Europe, but it makes me sick when someone suggests that Europe might have a moral superiority over the US.

Propietary unixes are those who are competing with linux, not windows. Linux already destroyed AIX and Solaris marketshare, while the windows server platform was largely unaffected.

I see way too much belief in an inminent victory over Microsoft in the OSS community. Microsotf has got a server system which is nowadays very reliable for mission critical systems, a very good development framework with .NET, and a clear domination of the desktop, which will not disapear in the short term.

And I would like to remind you that the idea of a web based alternative to Office is not new. There was a web version of openoffice some years ago which failed.