I agree. It looks like all the Distro's will have to jump on the bandwagon so to speak in order to be used by the new Windows 8 boxes.

Then in this case, why are all the distro's having to shell out to get a licence key from Microsoft? I know of a lot of small distro's that dont produce any income, and pay for their webspace out of their own pocket. Why are we going to force them to purchase a key to allow their distro to run on a Windows 8 box?