You don't need to have a disk or a browser or anything all that powerful on a client. According to Gates, Microsoft's strategy for the ultrathin client is to produce software to work on WBTs. The lure of the low end is bringing changes in semiconductors, too. The Success Loop Historically, the PC industry has fueled its own considerable momentum by setting the technology bar ever higher. Both the corporate and the consumer markets for many low-end solutions have had unglamorous beginnings.
Hope springs eternal, though.