Ever wanted to get updated with good software, computing environment and have somebody else bother about the computer maintenance.
Imagine this scenario.
a. I am an existing Airtel broadband subscriber
b. Airtel announces its new computing package @ Rs.99 a month
c. Curious, I go to see what they have to offer
d. The attendant says you can take a pre-packaged computing USB for free and put into your computer and start off using a given set of provisioned applications
e. She further says they have pre-packaged USB for Teens, Professionals, Adult etc and says I can try one free for a week.
f. I take the Teens USB and put into my computer (assume the comp boots off the USB)
g. On booting from USB, you automatically connect to live.airtel.net
h. Signing on is done and based on your profile, the Teen VM profile is loaded (the actual provisioning process)at the airtel site.
i. At this stage, it looks to be like a sophisticated pcAnywhere and I wonder whats its all about.
j. Then I realize that while the computing is going on at live.airtel.net, all data is being stored in the USB stick or my own hard drive.
k. The intelligent thing that these guys have done is not only with the provisioning (maybe using one of these hi-tech virtualization stuff) but also tap the data addresses, stream it over the net in a secure manner and store it the local USB.
l. Now, I can take this same USB stick with the data and go to any cyber café parlor and do the same operation. I am actually location agnostic now.
m. I went back to my small business and wondered whether I can get my accountant a corporate "Professionals" USB in the same way and stop him from telling me that the computer stopped working and he cannot give me my reports for this quarter.