Microsoft wants to sell 'fat clients' with a huge operating system to run their software. Hardware vendors want to sell powerful gear. Cloud computing threatens this, because all you need is a browser. Could MS have engineered this to undermine the whole concept of cloud computing? We no longer expect to grow our own food, generate our own energy, or render our own fuel. Soon our computing/media will be a subscription-based thing, and MS is not looking forward to it. Methinks..