[SPUDLEY1977]

Antoninus,
The approach you mention sounds par for the course. Bill's vision in the future is that we would all have dummy terminals with keyboard, visual screen, and some basic net connectivity equipment. All the hard drive, software, etc, etc will be resident at a remote site owned and managed by Bills team of foreign speeking ants - no insult to ants, or most foreigners, but a definate insult to US Citizens.

The end user with his lil dummy will pay a monthly bundled fee for net access, storage, software, and processing, etc, etc.

This would pad their bottom line as the current market is pretty much saturated. These kind of rental deals are:

1. Exponentially expensive for the end user
2. Very poor value relative to the skyscraper costs
3. Terribly cumbersome for the end user
4. Rigidly inflexible
5. You will need to learn the art of Indie_glish