For example, if the cloud detects that the client has high-end graphics, it can let the client do some rendering, transmitting abbreviated math that describes the function to be rendered, ratherthan forcing theserver end to do the work centrally and ship lots of pixel values down the line.
Engineers working for car companies and using networked computer-aided design terminals still file their ideas directly to theserver for the chief designer to approve ratherthan bouncing them around among colleagues for collective improvement.
This change ties licensing more to the use of the product and encourages greater VM consolidation as it counts VMs by size, ratherthan per physical server.