I've been saying a a version of this (the browser will eat the OS) for a few years now, really as soon as I heard about WASM. Once the executives learn that t

I've been saying a a version of this (the browser will eat the OS) for a few years now, really as soon as I heard about WASM. Once the executives learn that they can deliver binary blobs through the browser, that's the end game for the current distribution model. Piracy will be crippled at the knees and everything will become SaaS. Microsoft has signaled towards this direction when they talked about 10 being the last version of the OS, and the Office suite slowly porting more features to Office 365. Have you seen how aggressive the OneDrive nags have become recently? I fear for a world where PC's more closely resemble Chromebooks than the traditional offline first binary model of today. I can see the benefits this could bring to an end user, but I personally feel the price of freedom and privacy is too high.