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

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