Reason #[I've lost count] to switch to Linux. Obviously not happening right now, but probably not all that far off in the future considering they already do this for enterprise customers.
There is no such thing as "the cloud", it's just someone else's computer.
🤓🤓🤓 umm it's actually many other computers, and it doesn't belong to some one, it belongs to a faceless corporation with many shareholders. 🤓🤓🤓
We're pretty used to it at this point. My cyber cafe (do developed countries even have those anymore?) still uses tech from 2006.
Not even just countries. Vast swathes of the US have no broadband. As always, it's more like "poor people die mad I guess."
T H E C L O U D has been shit strictly for the benefit of rent seekers ever since its first marketing push over a decade ago. Under capitalism, it will always be shit and a part of enshittification.
200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023 will be the year of the linux desktop, at long last!
The computer i built in 2021 is the last windows computer i will ever use because newer hardware does not have drivers for windows 7. As it is i have to use a lot of coustom drivers and its a mess. Thats why i dual booted linux earlier this year.
It's now the year of playing windows games on Linux.
I wish they sold the computer part of the deck separately from the other stuff, it'd be such a good value-for-money gaming console.
Holoiso is definitely not quite ready for primetime. I just gave it a shot recently and it was buggy enough that I ditched it
Good thing is that the actual use case for computers is still work related and MSFT is absolutely not prepared to deal with the shitstorm that would happen if they cause downtime and cost thousands of companies millions of dollars in lost productivity.
This will be used as a gimmick at best and a way for them to gather more detailed use data and probably try and give away windows for "free" to consumers while continuing to release Pro/Enterprise editions for even more money.
Me in 2013: Fuck Microsoft for taking out the start menu. I guess I have no choice but to learn how to use Linux.
Me in 2023:
They definitely won't spy on everything you do and aren't trying to harvest as much user data as they possibly can.
I can already hear the greenwashing push for everyone to be on cloud thinclients
They can't even copy Google Meet with ten thousand programmers and unlimited resources without breaking every single feature. Good luck, bozos!
The other day my start menu got flooded w/ misc application pins for things I didn't even have installed (ESPN, Disney+, etc) and they reappear every restart even after I "uninstall" them. It's pushed me into just launching things from the PowerToys spotlight clone.
Jokes on them, I'll still keep using that garbage until I can't take it anymore
I FUCKING LOVE WIFI-DEPENDENT ARCHITECTURE! I WANT TO BE LOCKED OUT OF MY DEVICE WHEN I'M NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET!This is a pretty natural conclusion to cheap chromebooks and Infrastructure as a Service. Someone with a fiber connection who games a couple times a week and mostly does web browsing and word processing the rest of the time could essentially get a new $100 Chromebook every year or so and always have access to top-of-the-line hardware via the cloud (as a premium add-on, surely). So Microsoft can keep their desktop live for pennies on the dollar because the vast majority of the time they’re using little to no resources. And then Microsoft would be able to do things like mass caching of assets similar to how most ISP’s do, since it’s all in their data center.
So they only have to store one copy of boner.jpg instead of 10,000?
Do enough people actually have fibre internet for this to be feasible?
The best internet I can get right now is a bunch of cables bunched together, but if I got 150mbps (which is just 3×50mpbs lines), the signal interferes with itself and it's less reliable than just getting one 50mpbs line.
Not to mention, since it's not fibre, the upload is a lot worse than my already slow download speed.
A future update will include Windows 365 Boot, which will enable Windows 11 devices to log directly in to a Cloud PC instance at boot instead of the local version of Windows. Windows 365 Switch is also built into Windows 11 to integrate Cloud PCs into the Task View (virtual desktops) feature.
The idea of moving Windows fully to the cloud for consumers is also presented alongside Microsoft’s need to invest in custom silicon partnerships. Microsoft has been doing some of this for its ARM-powered Surface Pro X devices.
microsoft's solution to the x86 compatibility issue with ARM devices is just to make you connect to a remote x86 machine. im calling it now
So like back to thin clients. Reminds me of Microsoft Hydra, or "Windows-Based Terminals", or NetPCs. I completely forgot about the days of Citrix. That stuff was awful.
