True. Maybe keyboards could have a dock for a palmtop instead of a built-in LED display, which would reduce dedicated hardware cost, and the panel layout wouldn't be limited like LEDs are for non-overlapping icons, etc.

Most VST's should work fine since Windows 8 is very similar to Windows 7 from a technical standpoint.

However I wouldn't recommend Windows 8 to anyone. It's a tablet OS, designed for 7 - 11" tablets and mini-laptops with touch screens. Everything is super-sized so you can easily hit it with your clumsy fingers rather than use a high-preicision, per-pixel accurate optical mouse with several thousand DPI. It's not designed for mice and large 24 - 27" screens at all.

Do you actually know what youre talking about lol
Youre talking complete tosh and clearly are not referring to any released info or specs.

Windows 8 has tablet/touch integration (your reference to super sized pixels) but can be used like plain old vanilla Win7/WinXP/Win98/WinNT/Win95 etc.

Most programs that run on the above OS versions swill run on Win8.

(I fact I have an old DirectX app (Wavewarp) that stopped working properly with WinXP Directx9 but works great now in Win7 and works fantastic with the Directx VST adapter.)

Incorrect. Windows 8 is an evolution of Windows 7, which now effecctively has two user interfaces. The first user interface is what was called Metro, and is tablet-oriented. It can be disabled completely. The second UI is an evolution of the desktop UI in Windows 7.

There is also Windows RT, which is a port of Windows 8 to the ARM processor family for use on tablets. It looks like it only has the Metro style UI.

I think you're conflating Windows 8 with Windows RT, or Metro with Windows 8.