Future for CPU's?

[unipidity]

The ultimate aim of .net and apparently microsoft in general is a dumb-terminal remote processing world, is it not? On the assumption that bandwidth costs are now negligable enough that such a situation is possible.

This forgets the rest of the world where a megabyte/second minute is going at tens of dollars... and causes potential problems when Microsoft make African governments sign highly dubious contracts ensuring that Microsoft have them by their goolies.

 

[kautilya]

well seems like a doomsday scenario is being created for the cpu.
if the cpu become really cheap and compact then it might be more feasible to keep your data and process it rather than use a third party and then having to deal with security issues later.