Let me see if I can find some quotes or articles to back that up, I've heard it over and over again from people I considered experts, and from my point of view, it's perfectly reasonable, at least for buisnesses, to be forced to have always on inet to use these services, and you know ms will come up with a way to have a client prog that only works as itself, not through a browser. they will no doubt do this under the guise of 'the latest software' or 'the way todays buisness works' and other companies like corell will most likely be forced to develop similar services or their products will be considered out of date.

*IMPORTANT* Don't take my word for it, I'll try and get some stuff to back it up, if I can't just ignore my post it's pure speculation at this point.