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Thanks to upchuck for the ping!
Posted on 07/14/2021 2:13:30 PM PDT by upchuck
Why should they control the device? Dell is the device. Lenovo is. Or HP. Or a hundred other vendors. A lot of what people hate about Microsoft is actually the hardware by all these vendors.
The bottom line is, outside of Surface and XBox, Microsoft is a software company—not a hardware one. They’ve always made money through selling software to run on other people’s stuff.
This looks like more of that.
Colossus, the Forbin project is on Archive:
https://archive.org/details/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970
Oh, no reason...
And that is the problem. Enough idiots will fall for this scam and then it will become the industry standard.
The ‘cloud’ is nothing more than ‘somebody else’s computer.’
Back to the Future.
This how GE got into the Network business 50 years ago with the Mark III system.
“Dear MS customer. After analyzing it has been determined you have violated the community standards. Your account and all files have been permanently locked. If you think this has happened in error please send a fax with your name, SS number, bank account numbers, all your passwords, a set of finger prints, your passport, and original birth certificate to 555-555-1212”
My home desktops are still Super Computers in these daze..
Spreadsheets, within the capability of ten year old hardware pic storage, internet text, audio, pics, and youtube videos are well covered w/o any Cloud BS.
Seems like a security nightmare.
Not exactly new ... presumably they’ve put an even more painless front end so newbs don’t even need to be able to spell Azure.
Current pricing on Windows VMs:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/windows/
Linux ones are cheaper. The trial account allows one to play with these for a year (serious work will break out of the free stuff).
I just want a typewriter again
yep
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Thanks to upchuck for the ping!
...and no brain.
(Remote Voice): “Please deposit .75 for the next five minutes...”
SaaS has been around for a decade. This is arguably PaaS (platform as a service).
So they can shut off your computer connections at will........................
Global hackers will LOVE THIS!, Especially CHINA AND NORKS!....................
Not even at gunpoint.
The company I work for is splitting into two companies. We use O365 (as so many do). But, we have sites all over the US (and the world, really), which use either MPLS circuits or IPSEC VPN tunnels back to HQ or one of the data centers, then goes out the internet. Guest traffic at the remote sites usually goes straight out with a limited set of abilities (80/443 usually), after going through our cloud proxy service.
We pushed 93000 users from one org to another org over the weekend.
Our HQ/DC ISP pipes have been at 80% or more (98% was the highest sustained) since as people TRY to do normal work while also downloading 5+ Gb Outlook PST files.
Ugh.
/someone should have done a phased rollout - week 1 A-E, week 2 F-M, week 3 N-R, week 4 S-Z, something other than bull rush.
Desktop in the cloud would have been an even WORSE nightmare.
Didn’t you hear? The blue screen of death is changing to black screen of death (irony is lost, I’m sure) in Windows 11.
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