> "The Sputnik will allow developers to create “microclouds” on their laptops, simulating a proper, at-scale environment, and then deploy that environment seamlessly to the cloud. George explained it would use LXC virtual environments containers for the microclouds. These cloud applications can then be deployed to Ubuntu instances running on the Amazon, OpenStack, bare-metal with Management as a Service (MAAS), and, eventually, Microsoft Azure clouds. "

Jesus. Can I just have a laptop, please?

I don't think they understand that their target market is going to wipe whatever they put on there and reinstall their own. Or at least reconfigure the crap out of it. It's like our house, you can't just dump whatever you like into our environment.