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When MS launched .NET many years ago this was their end goal for the shifts they made. to lay the groundwork to a subscription/online OS managed by them. Hopefully a class action will hit MS with a bill for renting our hardware. Nobody builds a PC just to run Windows after all. So we may get a shift towards an OS independent platform. Like back in the day we didnt have hard drives with OSes, we had a basic set of libraries or even custom ones that was all thats needed to load an entire game from a floppy disk (880KB). No reason programs can't have their own essentials to talk to the (now) fairly standardised hardware comms specs. No real reason to run all this garbage an OS loads just because you have hardware. We'll get a shift I bet. Alternative OSes already untether us from MS but I can see the need for a step back now and look at PCs (personal computers) with fresh eyes, we aren't strangled by competeing hardware components they way the industry started in the 70s. Microsoft can become another software vendor with office but Windows I don't think is really needed anymore.
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