Re: "run their Windows 7 desktops in Microsoft's cloudy data centres"
" You can rest assured that if there was some cloud equivalent in Windows 3.1 days Microsoft would have jumped on that chance."
There was - its called the unix X window system. You could - and still can - run a desktop from a machine anywhere in the world along with remote command line acccess and rpc. But Wijndows back then was little more than a toy and not even close to being up to the task.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
