>Kevin, I still think that OS is going to become a server-only issue invisible to 99.999% of people; the rest of us will use phone-sized devices and micropayment subscriptions to various applications to do most of what we need.

No, it ain't gonna happen. They said the same in 1985, 1990, 1990, 2000 and 2005. And they will say it again in 2010 and 2015. Do you remember NET PC? Biggest flop of all time. Do you really think people will go back to dumb terminals? Sorry. People want computing POWER.

>It's already started in Japan, fwiw. Kids with bluetooth (or similar?) phones walk up to a screen at school and hey presto, they've got a workstation. Their own workstation, just the way they like it. It's no wonder that PC sales are declining over there.