In the public health care system, for example, only two hospitals are equipped with dialysis machines, which remove impurities from the blood when the kidneys can not do it.
VOA: standard.2010.05.30
The ultimate promise of the IoE is a system where machines talk to other machines to get complex tasks done on behalf of we humans.
They will be purchased on an as-needed basis off websites and will run on a variety of operating-system-agnostic machines, making Windows less important.