A lot of Reg readers must be very excited and want to be the first to grab a cheap Windows machine that is ad-supported.- Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs- Microsoft brings Cloud PCs and local desktops together in Windows 365- Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month- Take the day off: Windows Autopatch is live and can even fix cloudy PCs- From 2016: Microsoft explains Windows as a serviceIncluded in the possible models are low-cost PCs available via subscriptions, with advertising helping to offset some of the costs.Answering a question about Microsoft's three to five-year plan for advertising – Microsoft in July said its technology will power Netflix's first ad-based subscription model – Nadella said the goals include focusing on moving ads through its own offerings.Nadella pointed to the 20 percent growth of active Windows devices during the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that "one of the big opportunities it opens up is for us to take our own owned-and-operated inventory, right, whether it is Bing and Search, whether it's the feed... We are share takers in the browser.Eyeing more of a cloud-based future for Windows might makes sense to accountants in Redmond, enabling Microsoft to rely less on expensive PCs to sell the operating system and appealing to investors by adding another option in the cloud with Microsoft 365."