So the theory is that this is the web-based OS, that Java and Netscape et al. threatened MS with. The key isn't technical in itself (the cloud), but marketing

So the theory is that this is the web-based OS, that Java and Netscape et al. threatened MS with. The key isn't technical in itself (the cloud), but marketing (whose cloud). My own theory was that dropbox must be secretly headed towards a general cloud solution to justify those valuations. But this story puts it into perspective: dropbox is a competitor to MS and Apple.