Windows 8 - No Retail Copies?

[Scallica]

"Windows 8 users may not have the option to buy a full retail copy of the operating system when it launches this October."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259212/w ... _solo.html

[adam1991]

Macintosh users, same thing. It took awhile for Apple to provide retail copies, and I think that was not their original intent. Their original intent was, deliver it all over the net.

[mark1234]

I think this is just matching the reality that no one buys these. Real people get a new version of Windows when they buy a new PC and that's it. MS know the numbers and if they were selling serious quantities of these they wouldn't be getting rid of them.