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If you have never used OnLive, the streaming, cloud-based gaming service, let me tell you about its most surprising feature: It actually works.

Somehow, despite the fact that all of the computation and rendering is done on a remote server, and that the graphics and audio have to be encoded and sent across the internet, gaming with OnLive is really very good.

Now, however — starting in 2012 — OnLive wants to tap into the real money: It wants to use its technology to provide the PC desktop as a service.

The Linux distillery: "That's right; the Australian Tax Office's e-tax software is a Windows-only product.

If you run it within a virtualised Microsoft Windows on your Linux or Mac computer you may be eligible to tack the Windows tax onto your tax return!"