>I was referring to the words "the cloud". Regardless of who coined it first, or exactly when, it is my sense that Ballmer et. al. have a special meaning behind it (that they are not necessarily sharing with too many people at this point).

I also get the feeling that everytime Bill Gate's says the word "Device", he is not really refering to a peice of hardware that can access "the cloud", but he is really talking about special computer chips that MS sticks in our heads while we sleep at night that allow them to steal all of our thoughts and collect them in one gigantic brainstorm... or "cloud" as he puts it.

>By the way, I hope that I'm wrong in that conclusion, but to date have not heard anything causing me to rethink the issue.

Yeah, considering I didn't explain to you the meaning and orgin of the word, plus quotes of MS competitors using and explaining the word, that still doesn't mean Bill is in my head! Its MY head!!!