Imagine if a thin client PC has its OS hosted on cloud and can boot from a remote host. In this way similar to a PXE boot, not only users can save installation time/storage on the front ends but the OS can also be standardized/shareable/available anywhere, and have back-end OS updates without demanding CPU time on the client PCs. All needed is just simply a high speed internet link to the cloud OS host system. With such centralized infrastructure, user profiles, apps and data files can naturally become ubiquitously usable from the cloud too for roaming around. Till now, this advanced cloud model seems futuristic but may sooner or later be realized/required with next generation of broadband speed, PC BIOS redesign and higher work-end mobilization needs.
