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Originally posted by Jim727
Prediction: microsoft is heading toward a subscription model for the os, similar to that used by Symantec for NAV. Your system will operate only as long as you pay microsoft an annual fee to keep the os running. If you stay with microsoft, your comuter is headed toward being an internet appliance, not a personal computer. Apps will not be local apps, they will be components - such as active-x, which will run internet-based apps (for which you will pay an annual fee). Microsoft isn't building huge data centers like the one in Moses Lake, Washington, for the fun of it.
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No prediction nessecary, that is absolutely where they are heading. Microsoft will become a webservice, with the front end 'app' just being the GIU.