InformationWeek posted a story that Microsoft says in Interop keynote that the next version of its desktop OS will be tightly integrated with its cloud operating system.

While previous versions of the Windows operating system are in many ways standalone pieces of software that run individual PCs, Microsoft is designing Windows 8 with the notion that the desktop is merely a gateway to the cloud--and in Redmond's case, cloud means Windows Azure.
"We think about Windows Azure as the next generation of operating systems," said Robert Wahbe, Microsoft's VP for server and tools, during a keynote address Wednesday at the Interop technology conference and expo, a UBM TechWeb event, in New York City.

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