Many businesses are already doing this with AWS. I don't use Azure but I am sure they have a identical offering.

Don't think you can go full dumb terminal / thin client yet. Plenty of people around me can't get internet over 3mbps.

One we have bandwidth all over the US and other nations, then maybe they could talk about killing the thick client.

Nothing in that job posting supports the title.

This job listing doesn't say this. Other providers already offer Windows cloud offerings; only make sense they would as well. They also offer Office, Windows Server, and SQL Server as cloud offerings, and still sell plenty of licenses for on-premise installs.

Not sure if title is entirely accurate, just because they are planning a desktop as a service project/potential offering. Why would that assume that traditional local Windows would go away?

Because all you'd need is something that booted into a RDP client. And you don't need full Windows for that - probably just an improved Windows RT running on a low-power ARM device.

You can already connect to an Azure virtual Windows desktop from any RDP client.

I think perhaps they meant that Microsoft are putting it in the cloud as opposed to moving it and decommissioning the local version.