It seems like Windows 8 has put new Windows development up in the air recently. It would be crazy if this pushes too many of their users to other platforms.

I'd suggest that perhaps like those older Windows users like me, they might never upgrade and stick with the older platform, but this is not realistic as MS would eventually force all computer manufacturers to only install Win8 and you are back to the problem again. Since moving to the Mac I've sort of lost track a little with Windows and I only deal with WinXP at work.

Well you didn't expect things to stay the way there were forever though huh?