Not really.
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"Eighty percent of Windows sales are made when a new PC is sold," he said. "That's a huge amount of money for them that they do not have to go out and get. "If Windows ends up being less important over time as applications become more OS agnostic where will Microsoft make its money?" he asked.
Easy, they charge you everytime you use it off the server. That way they have you by the short and curlies and cream a lot of cash in the process.
Might be OK for a business with multiple machines but not much use to your average home user. This idea of accessing software, over the net for instance, has been mooted before. Not much use if you don't or can't have a reliable net connection. Sounds like another idea for MS to have tighter control of how you use your machine. Will probably end up like Vista anyway, a total pain in the butt
Bill (Ludd)