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Posted on 07/14/2021 2:13:30 PM PDT by upchuck
What if you could use a Windows desktop PC without actually running Windows on your hardware? Microsoft has a solution for you: Windows 365, a cloud-based Windows desktop you can access from any device, including Macs, iPads, Chromebooks, Android phones, and Linux PCs.
To use a Windows 365 “Cloud PC” after the service launches on August 2, 2021, you just need a device with a modern web browser. Your Windows desktop in the cloud retains its current state even when you disconnect. If you’re editing an Excel spreadsheet and switch from a Mac to an iPad, for example, you’ll instantly see the desktop state right as you left it when you reconnect so you can get right back to work. It’s just like waking a PC from sleep mode.
The benefit is clear: You can run Windows applications without running Windows on your hardware. This means access to a full Windows 10 desktop on Macs, iPads, Chromebooks, and more—just as long as you have an internet connection. (When Windows 11 launches, you’ll be able to access a Windows 11 desktop in the same way.)
At launch, Windows 365 will only be available to businesses, and it will have a per-user monthly subscription cost. Microsoft offers a variety of different hardware configurations at different price points, all hosted on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing service. Businesses will be able to easily spin up cloud PCs, manage them, and control access.
At launch, single-person businesses are eligible. It’s not just for large corporations with thousands of employees—and it’s easy to imagine Microsoft offering the service to consumers in the future, too.
Other services already offer cloud-based desktop PCs you can access in a browser for everything from gaming to productivity, but now Microsoft is offering its own solution.
(Excerpt) Read more at howtogeek.com ...
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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...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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