I disagree- I think they are very clear on where they want to go. Whether it is achievable is my question.

And I know they aren't going away any time soon, but if the windows tablet doesn't take off they are going t have lost a LOT of momentum.

Basically, this isn't like Silverlight. That idea failed but they had lots of other competing tech to fill the gap. Here they are putting all their eggs in the basket of Metro apps being the wave of the future- they are going to be hurting big time if they can't get traction in the market.