According to the Guardian Taiwan's DigiTimes have claimed that MS has halved the number of Surfaces that they have ordered for this year.

Also from that article according to Asus's chief finance officer David Chang I was at an Asus demonstration of their hardware running W8 including a tablet earlier in the week and asked how popular it had been with consumers they'd been showing it off to. The person I was talking to mentioned that it appeared to have Marmite reactions people either loved it or hated it and there wasn't much in between. However when I asked which way it was leaning he said it wasn't possible to comment on that officially.

I then asked if he had any personal opinions on W8 and he said that it seemed alright, whereupon I mentioned the issues I had with it. He then asked me if having multiple programmes open on screen at once was normal and I said yes, and he said "Oh I wouldn't know I haven't used a windows computer in years." I couldn't get out of him which OS he used but when I said I won't be upgrading just yet as I wasn't a fan of Win 8 with the current GUI for a lap/desktop and my Playbook is fine as a tablet, he indicated I was part of the larger group who didn't like it.