/v/ doesn't seem to care about this thought, maybe you will. Or you'll me to quit being a faggot and get gentoo. So here goes:
So now that The Cloud is real, how about a bit of tinfoil hat /x/'ing it up.
Windows 10 is The Cloud.
The Xbox One was announced, its biggest strength was going to be The Cloud which would revolutionize gaming. Then it disappeared. No one spoke about it.
The Xbox One launches, it's pretty lackluster, MS holds frame and maintains that it's da bes.
DX12 becomes the new Xbone MacGuffin.
Windows 10 becomes freeeeee, is released and millions install it.
The Cloud comes back with Crackdown 3:
https://youtu.be/Ge3PQ2nQM4Q (90 seconds)
https://youtu.be/rFWIpAPvF-Q (4 minutes)
In the second video they explain a bit more. Feature is only available in multiplayer and for demonstration purposes they measure physics in units of "Xbox One equivalents."
Meanwhile, Windows 10 has distributed computing systems for updating and other features, EULA includes comments on how some features are local and some are "Cloud Based". OS is obsessed with knowing where you are, has tons of communication features like Telemetry that can't be turned off (outside of Enterprise edition) that all communicate outside of the system and use system resources on the side.
So, Windows 10 is free so there's an automatic and guaranteed massive install base for them to start testing The Cloud with, people who will say "oh well I guess, it was free!"
How else could the Xbox Division, openly admitted to just be a giant blackhole for money, possibly manage to get away with The Cloud, on demand, in so many games?
They continue to avoid the subject, they won't state if it's just other Xbox One peers. Why would they avoid the topic if that were the case?
They won't say it's their own centralized servers either.
With the OS's obsession with knowing your location users could easily be connecting to systems quite literally next door to help combat latency, and with 18 million users on the first weekend alone, there's a lot of potential hardware out there that could be taken advantage of.
tl;dr
Windows 10 has all the components in place to act like a distributed computing node technologically and legally and coincidentally goes free and comes out right before MS goes back to touting The Cloud AND showing its performance for the first time publicly. Tin Foil stocks go up.