Two thoughts come to mind on this…

1) Opera seems to be making some serious in-roads with mobile users lately with their deal with HTC on the Diamond and Touch Pro as well as this announcement with Phoenix to provide instant-on surfing. This is good news for them, and it might actually make them relevant on the desktop if users find themselves wanting a unified surfing platform.

2) With instant-on becoming increasingly relevant for mobile phone and laptop users for providing exceptionally long battery life, it makes me realize that Microsoft had better get on the ball and make sure that both Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7 can compete.

In fact, I can picture it now… Windows 7 coming bundled with Windows Mobile 7 on certain laptop models with a dual-boot mode that allows you to operate a laptop on WM7 for instant-on limited web-surfing mode… and W7 for full laptop mode.

Just remember– if it happens, this is MY idea! *grin*

Of course, if it happens, I’ll have to eat my own words and admit that maybe there really is something to this whole cloud-computing version of Office they have coming…..