Microsoft moving fully to the cloud, does this mean something to us?

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My take on this Cloud-First-Windows vision that was leaked from a Microsoft presentation with very little details and just a lot of speculation:

If it actually happens, it will be more similar to a Chromebook, they will provide, likely an ARM based, low specs device with a basic Windows install that perhaps only has the cloud-connector (probably RDP based), One Drive to sync files, and Edge with extensions to run Office365 in offline mode.

Apps would just be either web-wrapper based apps, or RDP Apps, or you could just deploy your cloud desktop to do some work that requires more power.

I also think they would still provide an x86_64 based Windows for more powerful PCs for content creators and gamers.

In the very late 90s or early 2000s there was a leaked "October papers" or something like that. It detailed Microsoft's plan to move to Windows as a service. It seems like it is taking longer than they thought, but they've been moving this way for a long time.

I wish I kept a copy or was better at searching the old internet...

yeah it would be something like this, a probably windows 365 will work as the google one