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I am predicting at some point Windows itself will become a business only product and cease to be marketed to consumers, and the home user platform will be some kind of live service bullshit probably served in a browser. Basically the Chromebook idea, but Microsoft.
That's what they'd like, and that's what's actually available today, if you have serious enough brain damage it's available now.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365
Yeah, and it's just dumb terminals with extra steps.