One of the most successful tactics I have used to guess what happens next is to follow who is going where.
I got ‘ahead of the curve’ once concerning the previous government’s shenanigans when I predicted the imminent creation of an offshore Microsoft Azure powered G-Cloud for UK schools…which was duly dropped* in favour of a vague mixed provider option…which now has been canned altogether…I assume.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3052&blogid=40
Little known to the general public is her commitment to Linux…Microsoft’s deadliest rival..as long ago as 2004 her CTO proclaimed that Open Source and Linux was the ‘key to the Internet’.