The good news is, no one knows where these various cloud initiatives are going in the end. Not Wainewright, not Ballmer, not Appirio packing a lucky rabbit's foot. Ballmer for one is just hedging his bets, as he does with everything else MS related (can you spell OCTOPUS?).
This "slam dunk" these guys are counting on is anything but inevitable or inexorable, at least to the extent they're hoping. But it never hurts to dream.
