Rumor pegs Windows 9 release for next year, Windows 10 as a cloud OS | Microsoft | Geek.com
It's not really reputable and it's just a rumor, but it doesn't sound like something someone would make up. I also made a mistake - it's Windows 10 that's supposed to be very different and cloud based. I'm sure Windows Phone 10 would follow suit if this plan turns out to be real.
Allow me to correct some things here and enlighten you some.
1st - the OP was asking about WP not Windows. So your information was incorrect to begin with.
2nd - The 'source' at that link heard it by a third person. So it's a rumour of a rumour. That puts it in the toilet and should be flushed.
We all know that MS likes cloud computing but we also know it likes money. They will not **** off their largest money making source, better known as enterprise. No company of any size will go for full on cloud computing in the next 2-3 years. Not going to happen.
I'd like to point out Chrome OS....oh yes, very few people pay attention to it or use it.
Now lastly a history lesson for you. Way back in the early 90s, yeah I'm showing my age, I actually worked on a mainframe computer. If you don't know what that is, think of cloud computing. Same concept. Servers will all the software and you just having a 'terminal' to the servers.
Personally I hated mainframes. I know there's a lot of IT admins would find the idea simpler for them but at the end of the day, the change in infrastructure would be immense. Also some software I use I have a hard time believing would work in that situation. Great if all you're doing is shuffling documents around, not good if you're working in a 3D environment.
Lastly, I see no way a cloud based OS would work well in a mobile phone with our current infrastructure. It would be a very bad experience and a very big mistake for MS to even think of something like that. They would go bankrupt in a hurry.