And 8-bit graphics.
Posted on 09/02/2013 12:13:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Microsoft Windows 10 might become a cloud based operating system (OS) according to a leaked road-map. The road-map shows that Microsoft will no longer release service packs but instead will release major updates every year which also increases the version number of the OS. The next major improvement should be Windows 9, this should bring back the Aero interface in a new form.
This should also be a version in which Microsoft will merge its ARM CPU based Windows RT platform with Windows Phone. This version of Windows could also be the last version of Windows as we know it.
According to the road-map is Microsoft planning to release Windows 10 with heavy cloud support, something Google is currently doing with ChromeOS. This means that many functionality on the computer no longer requires heavy hardware on the client side, lots of processing could be done on the servers of the cloud service.
Currently Microsoft is embedding their Skydrive cloud service in Windows 8, which is for e.g. Office the preferred option to store documents. For users this has the benefit that documents can be accessed from everywhere.
A cloud based OS has the benefit for Microsoft that it will limit piracy. Many parts of the OS will not run on the local computer but require to access the cloud where the actual software is running from. Benefits for users is that they always have up to date software and that they no longer need fast and expensive hardware. But since the rumors say that Windows 10 might be controlled using eyesight, new hardware might be a requirement to actually use the OS.
The roadmap has been posted on a Russian forum by an user of WZOR, the hacking group that was responsible for leaking Windows 7 RTM, Windows 8 RTM and Windows 8.1 RTM before their official release. The group allegedly has access to Microsoft internals which allows them to release software preliminary, this makes the rumor at least interesting.
basically windows will become ransomware. with the eula’s and forced upgrades written in, it practically is anyway.
And 8-bit graphics.
It is 2013 and the electoral algorithms that have been developed are getting more sophisticated by the day. It is literally down to square miles. “If we can boost our turnout in these five isolated square miles, we can win these two county - - and if we can win these two counties we can win the state.”
Whoever controls the data, controls the elections. This is Chicago mob politics at its core.
Of course the other, equally important, side of the coin is... dirt. We were outraged twenty years ago at what the Clintons could do with a thousand purloined FBI files. (Headshaking chuckle.) Do you have any idea what Ubama and the Chicago mob can do with server farms full of NSA data on nearly every citizen?
Which brings up a good question: how will they charge for this operating system, by the CPU cycle?
Following Google. (ChromeOS.)
By the time Windows 10 comes out floating on a cloud, the whole cloud hoopla fashion might be passe like nose earrings.
It’s the “smoke” in the “smoke and mirrors” that has become a fixture of our lives the past few years.
It will be a Non Existent OS at my house
As privacy rights are being trampled on left and right and once again there is talk of amending the constitution, perhaps there should be an explicit declaration of the rights of privacy of the individual, online, thermally (cops like to spy THROUGH your walls these days), and so forth.
Man, I’m still trying to get my PC to stop sending crap to One Note.
What do you do if you are cross-eyed?
Well sure, outsourcing storage for handling massive amounts of data can make sense as an *optional* strategy. But MS has always had a “we are the thought leaders” attitude and they are probably going to “nudge” us all hard toward what makes sense for them, and Cloud does work to their advantage. Unless it doesn’t. If the market bails on them for pushing this (I know I will), then good. Maybe they’ll back off. The NSA business should be enough to scare away a critical mass of those who might otherwise have quietly accepted the serfdom of the Cloud.
Amazon and a host of other companies have it figured out but they focus on the server side. Those work very well but I won’t be giving up my PC.
What could possibly go wrong?
Good point.
One of the reasons why I got into computers was that I understood them, when no one else could, or did. Plenty of the work I performed was considered next to witchcraft by management.
Fast forward 20 years. Everyone has at least one smartphone, tablet, laptop, home computer, gaming console (on the internet), printer, Ipod, and 10 other networked devices that I'm not thinking of. Computers are ubiquitous, no witchcraft involved.
But....and this is critical....everybody owns one, no one is intimidated......but no one understands how they work. It's like the phone, or the light switch. They just do.
Cyclical, as I said in a prior post. I wonder if the "cycle of computer witchcraftery" is coming around again. Happy days are here again, if so.
Can’t even get a damned flip phone anymore now we have the idiots at Microsoft wanting me to put my computer data on some server somewhere so I can use their OS.
Screw them all.
Apples refusal to adopt business standards will continue to be their downfall in the business arena. Linux has more hope if they can sell the user interface.
Right now microsofts biggest advantage is that everyone uses office products. So for interoperability you have to use their products. This will open the door again for linux.
“Well sure, outsourcing storage for handling massive amounts of data can make sense as an *optional* strategy. “
Depends on your definition of ‘massive’. The internet is too slow for truly massive. Try transferring a few hundred GB in a timely fashion.
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