The PAST is the FUTURE.
When I was first seriously involved in computing, we had dumb terminals and the "smarts" were a big box down the corridor. Sometimes a PDP-10, other times I used an early UNIX ... it was mid/late 1970s.
Back then my dumb terminal was an Omron ... which I sometimes respelt as Moron. In fact, the Omron was better than the fancier terminal which had "personality" and could become befuddled.
Now almost 40 years later we are supposed to be WOWed!! by relinquishing our work to the "cloud", even less under our control than the Big Box Down The Corridor. I don't have enough faith to rely on the Internet and C*mc*st and some cloudy host to simultaneously be working.
And now back to the original thread about Winnows 8.