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I was initially skeptical (I have a lot of X Terminal baggage), but looking at some of the cloud gaming platforms like Geoforce now or even Stream, it's a good alternative.

<@U25U0KPFT> interesting.I'm not a gamer but from what I understand MS's new xCloud game streaming play is their stealth way of getting into streaming apps. From one article I read `Imagine running Adobe Premier on a Surface Go and having it rendered in Azure and then streamed back to your hardware; this is the future Microsoft envisions.` ...so I'm trying to understand how that kind of trend (and Apple's own variation, whatever that is) would affect those of us indie developers interested in cross-platform *desktop* development.

Will these new architectures make it easier or harder to build something on, e.g. JVM, and then leverage new distribution techniques, licensing systems, etc.

Depends how open it is.  There's a chance of platform independence being given at the expense of ecosystem independence.  For instance, if you use Steam to develop an app for multiple platforms, you pay a self-publishing fee that's good for now, but can be raised later.