We all know the reason for this complaint

The only reason Macro$lut is complaining about this is because they are having to listen to what others want rather than being able to force their requirements and standards on everyone else.

But this is an example of M$'s innovation through acquisition failing them. They did not buy some cloud startup early enough and are now in catchup mode.

But i predict this "cloud computing" stuff ill go the same way as the Newton and Grid Computing.