>I don't know how they'll get magic transparent updates when their model is to always require restarts. When the only thing stored locally is $HOME and everyth

>I don't know how they'll get magic transparent updates when their model is to always require restarts. When the only thing stored locally is $HOME and everything runs on clusters on MS servers you will never know when the 'back end' reboots. The 'Future' is the same as the past but with updates. You are (your smartphone) and will be running a dumb-terminal. Instead of one computer you are now using a very-large-cluster of servers. Each time you boot-up 'Your instance' may be a unique VM that gets spun-up in micro-seconds. When it's time for an update the patches can get all pushed out to the VM's and when you reconnect (i.e. wake from sleep-mode) you are now connected to an 'updated' VM with all the hard work happening on the backend. This very of the future is really fucking COOL, and terrifying. It also pretty damn doable.