This training seminar says it all about where MS is headed

[commodorejohn]

SaaS is probably a good model.  Offering training is a part of SaaS.

Why, it's such a good model that we almost totally abandoned it outside the mainframe market for the nearly four decades that personal computers have been a thing!

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, I can see how paying a subscription fee for a program that you don't actually need new versions of makes perfect sense.

[commodorejohn]

You're paying for storage space on their servers when you can easily have reasonable amounts of portable storage much cheaper by just buying a dang thumbdrive (or huge amounts of non-portable storage vastly cheaper with a hard disk.) It's just stupid, no matter how much you try to rationalize it.

[commodorejohn]

But you don;t have to carry that thumbdrive everywhere and what if you lose it (I lost a 32GB one)

The only issue is what happens if they decide they're closing the data centre down like Ubuntu did, or worse still, you data gets hacked/accessed by people you don't want to access.

Well, exactly. You're paying subscription money to put your data in the hands of people you don't even know, in a place where anybody in the world could theoretically get to it, to save yourself the trouble of keeping track of a flash drive (keychain, people, keychain!)

[commodorejohn]

And we all know Bill is absolutely uncompromising in his devotion to the best interests of Microsoft's users, and unerring in his judgement as to what that might be.