@Madgun68
[Amithlon]
"I'd bet the number of people who pirated it is much higher than those who bought it."
You're missing the point.
Kronos is claiming that even a small percentage of an established market base is significantly larger than one that doesn't yet exist. Investing in a USD$200 software solution is likely to be more appealing than USD$1000 in new hardware.
There are 600 million PCs out there. Even if .001% of these were capable of running an x86 version of OS4 and some of these users were willing to pay for it, the install base would be huge.