While unsophisticated users wont see a difference, and may benefit from having documents and photos in a well managed cloud, nothing lasts forever. I like my pe

While unsophisticated users wont see a difference, and may benefit from having documents and photos in a well managed cloud, nothing lasts forever. I like my personal computer data staying at home. The companies do not respect privacy as a value. Back to timeshared per-minute computing for beancouter reasons I guess. Our small business clients are having to face buying a new server again on a 5 year cycle or moving their business to the cloud out of their direct control but opex is appealing over capex. Microsoft has been a stable cloud partner for office365, and the various software vendors are seeing dollar signs. Intuit has stopped selling a desktop quickbooks. The only disaster is if something happens to this cloud data. We can only hope they don't continue to cut costs on maintenance, but have no way to verify this. I'll keep my PC running on linux I guess. Microsoft doesn't intend to sell a desktop operating system. Will it be the year of the linux desktop by default, in the end?