DRK mentioned in the WIRED News …>
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/inside-dark-wallet/

That is not a prediction, just an article about another coin. Enjoy it for what it is

I don't expect DRK to go much lower than now, but nobody can know for sure. This is not the place for the faint of heart and the history of bitcoin crashes shows it (and it doesn't even get to the last ones!). We have already suffered a correction of more than 60%, but if you bought a few months ago you are still in dark black numbers. It all depends on the time frame you consider. Know what you invest in and stop looking at the price every minute.

Possible yes
But if the guy is too lazy to learn Linux to setup one, he won't be in the position  to properly configure it anyway under Windows. Furthermore, 2 systems are now necessary to segregate the main wallet holding the 1000 DRK from the masternode server, which should be exposed to the Internet contrary the cold wallet system - you could manage on one system with VM, but on a security point of views this  looks bad ... In addition he plans on exposing his only machine to Wild Wild West on the internet while hosting the VM ?

People are right about predictions and they are wrong about predictions -- the average of coin101's original poll back in April was $3-$5 at the release of RC2 and the price peaked at $15 in mid May.  Moral of the story, don't bother getting upset at other's predictions and make your own decisions... nobody really knows what will happen anyway.

Well DRK does have more USD markets than most alts including ones at Bitfinex and Crypty, but yes it is still mostly tied to BTC. 

Bingo =) That's the beauty of it =)