MSGID: 1:261/1304 5C9C0FA3   
   PID: WWIV BBS v. 424    
   TID: WWIVTOSS v. 1.52    
      
   NA> The thing is though, there is no OS ready to take over that ownership of   
   NA> the desktop if M$ went the cloud-route. Apple? A big maybe... but   
   NA> Chromebooks and Linux are out of the question.   
      
   Most large enterprise systems have moved to browser based web applications.    
   There has been a big push for developers to move away from Windows and create   
   "appliances" that run as VMs with some flavor of Linux under the hood.   
      
   If the organization can get to web only applications, they no longer require   
   Windows.  No doubt this isn't reality yet - but if M$ pushes organizations to   
   the cloud, the "Plan B" approach will happen much quicker.   
      
   - Mark   
      
   --- WWIVToss v.1.52    
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