Microsoft researching Windows replacement?

[Delever]

What I got from last MS developer event, is that Microsoft doesn't know what to do, so they are doing everything at once.

[Giant Speck]

It would be interesting, but considering the current shape the economy is and how Microsoft has been doing financially in the past couple of years, it would not be feasible.

[arashiko28]

Well, here you go, the first step after Billy went home to see how he can save the world and it's a dumb one. They should do a deep marketing research and with a 3rd party company, obviously their marketing researchers are too busy and desperate on keeping their jobs that they don't throw any real results.
Any of us has experienced some discussion sometimes taken to a big arguing when trying to convert someone to open source, a lot of people says "sure, I'll give it a try" and a lot more says "I don't have the time to learn a new OS from scratch", and for the lousiest Vista came to be, they stuck with it because it's what they know. Even though, I've proved my point when it comes to the differences, Vista makes things harder and it's little intuitive, so you do have to learn again how to use it. For what I have seen from windows 7, it'll be awesome only on touch screen computers, the rest of the world will go crazy trying to get some work done. Besides, if their plan is to force public to buy a new computer just to get windows 7 on the market, well, at least not where I live. World wide economy it's to the level you can easily throw 1,000 dollars to the thin air.
Let's say you just bought a laptop, it's about 6 months old, and because of the release of microsoft's next OS (supposedly in june) your shiny like new laptop gets depreciated faster than a crashed car and now you have to by a new one because sadly your job demands it. What will you do with the new-obsolete one?

Anyway, they just don't get it. Users don't hate windows, users hate microsoft's policies, rubbish and their imperative need of always controlling the market and what you do on the privacy of your home.
A lot of guys would disagree when it comes to think that since will it be on a "public" server, they'll know how many times you go to this or that porn page. And that's nothing, they already know that, but the word blackmail is like a big flashing sign in front of my eyes.

[LuigiAntoniol]

The original article tells us that Microsoft is thinking about moving toward cloud computing. What's new? We've known this for a long time.

In my opinion, moving toward only cloud computing is a dumb idea whether it's Microsoft or Ubuntu. I can see it being good if the standard internet connection becomes 1000 times faster, internet service is free for everyone, and they don't start to lease all of the software that we use. When that happens, I'll support cloud computing.

Wouldn't work where I live (South Africa). Capped internet really caps you, uncapped internet costs much more, maximum ADSL speed of 4mbps, max 3G wireless speed of 7.2mbps. All of these options are over-priced when compared to global standards.

Might be a decade before we catch up with the rest of the world on access speeds.