I just looked at "Today's Posts" All there was is my own posts except Iseeuu who responded to one of my posts.. That is pretty lame performance. Let's shape up. LOL
Once we actually have something tangible to get our teeth into, I think that the Forum will start to pick up. As John said, there is still plenty of time. We know that W8 will be coming, we just don't know when.
IF the 2011 date is correct (which is too soon in my opinion), then we should see the first beta's around the end of this year, and the pick up will be then too.
Without a doubt it will start rolling as more information and rumors start to leak out of Microsoft. Once the alpha is released a great deal of us will jump on it, and then it will be going full steam. We all will be looking for info from each other as to problems along with thoughts, and ideas to help improve the new OS.