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One topic not discussed about Windows 8 in any of the articles or stories, including "10 Predictions...." is that of Windows 8 security and reliability efforts.

If most of the code for Windows 8 came from Windows 7/vista but with new interface primarily, it seem likely that all the very real and damaging security vulnerabilities plagueing Windows up to now remain, and that mean Windows 8/RT will still not be as reliable or secure as a thin client - on any thin client OS running on non-Windows Server OS for business connectivity or access.

Fortunately for Microsoft, Software-as-a-Service or cloud Computing alleviates many of these Windows weaknesses, but if based on Microsoft Azure, then little has improved since Azure has terrible reliability and security, even crashing repeatedly in short time it has existed, and more than ninety percent of corporation, organizations are using Amazon EC2, OpenStack or other (non-Microsoft) Cloud services.

Windows 8 - another marketing gimmick?