You don't want to see headlines like this one, from the AP:

Research firm: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops

Apparently, PC shipments fell some fourteen percent in the first quarter of this year, which is the steepest they have ever dropped. The AP's Peter Svenssen analyzes the data like this: "Microsoft's Windows 8 software appears to be driving buyers away from PCs and toward smartphones and tablets..." Let's hope, for the good of the local economy, that Microsoft has something great up their sleeves.