[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]Will Windows Blu solve some of Win8's problems? Particularly for laptops and desktops?[/citation]
Unless they stop saying they are a "device and services company", no.
Pro users, the pillars of their market, wants to buy software, not a service: if you are not the customer, you are the product.
OEM does not want to produce machines (fungible goods) competing with the developer of the OS used on the 90% of the machines (so dominant that cannot be considered a fungible good), and are fleeing away to produce other types of machines (or components for Apple, Google, and Amazon).
Developers does not want to write WinRT software for 2,5% of the market (with various highly advertised sales months showing a very slow adoption rate) that have to compete with Win32 software competitors running on the 90% of the market, AND with iOS and Android competitors with a wider market share - AND now with Bluestack Android software have a wider Windows audience than Store, not being limited to W8 machines!
With adoption rate being half than Vista, W8 seriously risks to peak UNDER OR AROUND 10% of the market at the top of its lifecycle!
And with an adoption rate LOWER than the replacement rate of old PCs, MS is shrinking its own market share everyday - not even China is longer buying WinPCs, today's new.