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Lots of people missing the point here.
What if you had a tablet device that could go weeks without charging? It could handle basic tasks on its own, or more intensive tasks when connected to the internet?
Office 365 is a good example. Basic tasks of word can be handled by a cached web client, but if you need to do something more advanced and need the full version of word to run, the ARM architecture can’t run it so spin up a virtual instance and stream it to your arm device.
Windows 11 will have this baked in. It’s not a forced replacement of a local OS.
But you don't need to host your local OS in the cloud to run an application in the cloud.
Edit: clarification.
If your hardware is ARM and you need to work in x86 then yes you do.
People are streaming machine instructions from the Internet? I'm not sure how that makes sense. Kinda seems like local storage would be more efficient if you're literally just running the stuff locally anyway.