Mike,

>>You're talking about the future .NET versions of Microsoft's own applications, which will run somewhere out there in "the cloud", with some kind of lease/rental scheme instead of buying the software.
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>Yep yep yep. I just don't think its a positive move in the computing, which has kindof been tearing at me for a while now. (Sorry for the outburst)

I'm particularly concerned about the next two versions of Windows, in which MS is leading us into having our data store out in the cloud also (on their servers of cour$e), all managed by the OS.