So with windows as a "desktop as service" subscription coming, how will I be able to use my laptop offline and keep my cracked proggy running?

Desktop as as Service is not for your typical personal machine, the DaaS system allows enterprise customers to provide a desktop on a virtual machine in a datacenter and allow that same desktop to be accessed from a thin client or a terminal program in another location. What is changing is the cloud offerings. Instead of former terminal service systems operating in a local data center, it is possible to get DaaS as a cloud product, Amazon's AWS already offers this.