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I'm not speaking to any specific reports. I just think that some day Microsoft will make it a subscription because that's where they've taken everything. You'll have to sign up for a new "w365" which will have the office suite and the OS will live in Azure. They will be like Chromebooks, but for Windows. Naturally, there will be tiers for storage and pro apps, a business tier, and a government tier.
I hope it doesn't come to that, but if it does, I don't want to be a part of it. On the business side, I think it's already headed that way. It may not be a subscription for Windows, but it will be thin clients running stuff in the cloud. It's already possible, I think it will be the mainstream someday.