Windows and Office continue to be Microsoft’s main cash cows, with a range of additional offerings also qualifying for positions of top earners. There are a range of company divisions pulling in over $1 billion in revenue each year, including Xbox, SQL Server, System Center, Unified Communications, SharePoint, Developer Tools, Dynamics, and Online Advertising. And yet, Microsoft is looking past Windows 8, Windows 9, Office 15 and Office 16, and is revealing that the future will be marked by a technology which is still in its infancy: the Cloud.

“Ladies and gentleman, we're going to a new world. We're going to a world where not only will every device be connected, but every application, and more importantly every person will be connected. We're going to a world where you will live, where how you live and how you work, the lines will be blurred, because lifestyle and work style are becoming more and more connected,” said Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer.

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this looks promising:

And our big bold goal for the next couple of decades is we want to have a continuous cloud service for every person and every business.

That would suggest they are not going to the cloud just yet.

How can you have continueous cloud service with todays infrastructure, hell they still have people on dial up, no choice?? Personally I think one of the main reasons they are pushing cloud is so that they can stop spending 10mil a year fighting piracy. Think about it, you buy an OS from them and they give it to you and control it from the cloud and no longer have to worry about pirated cd's/dvd's. They are already gearing toward that with the authenication process required to be installed now if you want updates. They are basically telling you that they will have complete control over every app, Just like the futureistic Sci movies of yesterday and today, something that I don't want.