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Always said Droid would be a game-changer if it ran on the desktop.

No game changer at all, since Android is still a very limited capabilities OS, and no competition to any full-blown desktop/PC OS. On a PC, "Droid" will still be doing the same things it can do on a smartphone or a tablet, which means that, it's not even close to being a competitor to Windows or Mac OSes or Linux.

Now, if the PC OEMs are angry at Microsoft, and they carry on with their projects to include Android alongside Windows 8/8.1, then they'll be biting off their noses to spite their faces. If people come to believe that they can have the best of both worlds with a "hybrid" PC that runs Windows and Android "together", then there might end up being a lot fewer tablets sold in the future. A lot of those OEMs are also into selling tablets, and if people decide to go with the hybrids, then it's Microsoft and Intel that end up winning, and the OEMs will end up with fewer tablets sold. If the OEMs were smart, they'd try to make better PCs and sell those, while also trying to make better tablets and selling them too. Two sales is always better than one.

..... and no competition to any full-blown desktop/PC OS.

It doesn't have to be. That's kind of the point. People are doing more on their smartphones and tablets than on their PC's. Why is that? Likely because they're finding free or very cheap apps that accomplish what they want to accomplish.

When you look at the cost of a smart phone vs a PC, a high-end smartphone costs more than a pc or laptop. It's only when you add the Microsoft operating system license and MS Office software and other software components deemed "must have" on a PC that the cost of a PC goes up dramatically.

Take that same basic PC that costs $600 or less, put the "free" Droid OS on it along with the Droid App Store and I think it'd be a hit. Buy the apps you want/need for pennies on the dollar compared to those for MS Windows and off you go.

Just my opinion of course.