What you are correct about is that the rest of their customers are PO'd by their usual strong arm tactics of forcing vendors to switch from a popular OS to a lame on on desktops and laptops where it makes zero sense.
One thing I do on the side is fix PC's and I will get a call from someone telling me they bought a new PC (they never ask me first) and "Where's my start menu?" So I bring my windows 7 disks and install it, usually dual boot so they can switch to 8 if they feel like beating themselves up. The MS business model has to change to match the market, but I'm not sure if it will.
“Windows 8 is a tablet OS which is why it is so hateable on laptops. It is not windows “jammed” onto a mobile device, it is a horrible stripped down version of windows that does ok on ARM and other underpowered but battery friendly hardware. By doing ok, I mean it is functional.”
Actually, you meant “Windows RT” rather than “Windows 8”, but everything else you say about it (RT) is correct.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, RT is all but dead because sales were so horrible that ALL OEMs were forced to withdraw from the market because they were losing money on RT devices, which is one of the reasons the OEMs are losing faith in Microsoft.
The other reason RT will soon die is that Microsoft alienated their potential developers with how Microsoft distributes and sells development tools, plus Microsoft’s poor revenue sharing model on the Metro Apps Store. In addition, the only devices that HAVE to have Metro Apps are RT devices, and since almost everyone skips Metro on PCs, and since tablet sales with Windows 8 have gotten off to an excruciatingly slow start, the Metro Apps store is very unlikely to ever reach a critical mass of the Apps that people actually WANT. That likely failure to reach critical mass is probably the final nail in the RT coffin.
Why the Windoze 8 putdown? You can get back the start button with a simple download such as “classic shell” that will have it looking close enough to Win7. You then bypass the stupid tiles...... which are suitable for tablets. And on phones
Windows 8 does not have media center. This is the only drawback compared to Win7.