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I'm surprised they're bothering to focus on consumer devices instead of just going all-out on enterprise and business.
Cloud workstations make a lot of sense for when you need the extra grunt occasionally and have a rock-solid internet connection, but about the only reason the average consumer would want to use them on a portable device is gaming. Everything else you can do locally or as a web app.
And even gaming has been a bit rocky, though it has its small cult of followers.
Without reading the article, this smells a lot like #enshittification
Just another case of "you will own nothing...". Come on over to Linux, where the ISOs are plentiful.
Might finally convince me to move fully to Linux.....
This seems odd to me, I've dabbled with Linux before but I'm generally a macos guy where the os is the free bit. Charging for an os is outdated surely?
More reasons to switch to Linux and stay there.
Once you're logged into Windows 365 you're technically using their hardware and just streaming the use to your machine. You will have almost no control over your own device because it isn't actually your own device. Your own device has been turned into a television, a device that just plays what another device is displaying.
This is about property and ownership and how Microsoft wants to take those things away from you. They want full control of how you use their operating system, and when they force users to use their software and hardware, they will acheive it.
I suddenly feel an urge to install Arch
Did nobody read the article? Nowhere does it say they would make Windows cloud-only. They're talking about renting out virtual machines.
Did nobody read the article?
Doesn't sound like it. Some people even admitted that straight up.
I don't see anywhere they are saying that they are getting rid of installed Windows, just providing a different avenue of Windows usage, something to compete with the ChromeOS type of uasge.
Yeah, stuff like this is why I just recently changed back to mac a week ago (after years of hating them). For gaming I swapped my Xbox X to PS5 too at the same time (the Xbox X can't even remote play in windows because I just get a black screen, which is embarressing for them).
Got sick of Edge hijacking my Chrome tabs randomly too. Things are getting worse in windows, not better
I haven't run Linux in ages (2012 maybe?) But I'm about ready to give it another look. I use windows on my machine less and less frequently, and it seems like it's never been easier to switch to something less "taking all the control away from the user" focused.
Doesn't Microsoft have the worst availability around for their cloud stuff? Or is IBM still giving them a run for their money?
That’s a big nope for me.
Internet goes out? I can still do some amount of work, now I need power and internet to both work to do any work at all.
Not a fan of this and I will not embrace it.
"You will own nothing and you will love it" jesus. All in on OpenAI and automation.
I KNEW IT! I FREAKING KNEW IT! People always kept going on and on how I'm paranoid and here it is!