As you may have heard, it's been 3 years since Microsoft has been a lot more aggressive than in the past pushing Windows down users' path. In the past, that was only Internet Explorer, the most vulnerable piece of software on earth.

And yet, at the same time Microsoft has been telling everyone that their future is tied to the "cloud", by that they mean private user and corporate data stored on Microsoft owned servers (possibly running Linux...).

Can anyone with a brain explain why would Microsoft push Windows at a time when the operating system is no longer an essential part of features for doing anything online. After all, you could use a web browser and that would be pretty much it. At least, why upgrade Windows ? Why upgrade a piece of software whose goal is to start applications and show windows ? What is so compelling in the latest iteration of the operating system that the previous one could not do ?

This is not even discussed even though purchase departments in corporations out there must be wondering what's going on here. And they are right. Corporations should pay Microsoft to keep shipping security updates to whatever existing operating systems deployed there, but anything running on top of it should be of their own or third-party (read : non-Microsoft) going forward.

Hence the success of Chrome book computers and corporate Google docs, by the way.