Goodbye PCS, it's been nice knowing you. Hello, desktop as a service

Except Microsoft just changed the rules of the game meaning that no one can offer Windows-as-a-service environment except them. Well, at least not at a reasonable price since they’d have to pay Microsoft a much higher license fee than Microsoft would charge for Azure.

If someone else can figure out how to offer good-enough service that isn’t dependent on Microsoft licensing, they might have a real winner.

And don’t even start on Amazon’s Virtual Desktop solution. I didn’t think it was possible to offer a worse and more unreliable service than Microsoft, until I had the misfortune of encountering Amazon’s version. Oh Holy FML.