If MSFT decides to kill win8 in favor of win9 then Intel can make handstands and they will not succeed in the next 5 month.
Is this because buyers will delay their planned PC purchases until the 'dust settles' on a new MSFT OS? But if Win8 is updatable to Win8.1 and Win8.2 then there is no need to delay and PC purchases can continue their stabilization (and comeback)?