[LibWhacker]

If they do that, I predict it'll be the biggest shot in the arm ever for Linux, and it'll be a cold day in the realm of double hockey sticks before I let Billy Gates grab me by my data.

[dfwgator]

The return of the dumb terminal....everything old is new again.

[Vince Ferrer]

This cloud will be hosted at the NSA.

[dfwgator]

All your personal documents in the cloud, what could possibly go wrong?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Stability is one of the hallmarks of UNIX/Linux/BSD/OSX.

Microsoft wouldn't be dumb enough to cede that territory.

Would they?

[sten]

cloud os?

fail

[The Cajun]

Gee an operating system that starts off in the dirt and digs deeper.
Bye-bye Microsoft.

[unixfox]

It doesn’t say anything about getting hold of your data. They are talking about Windows specifically.

Furthermore Bill Gates hasn’t been at the helm of Microsoft for several years now.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Which one of the druggies came up with this “cloud” BS anyway? Cloud my @$$.

[FreedomPoster]

Sounds like it may be time to get up to speed on Linux.

[Billthedrill]

This version of Windows could also be the last version of Windows as we know it.

Nope. Win7 was the last version of Windows as we know it.

It isn't obvious to anyone living in a wired-all-the-time city, but we rural dwellers know the hazards of overdependence on infrastructure. First your data, then your apps, and now your OS all depend on infrastructure. And infrastructure is vulnerable.

When my workplace decided to outsource email to The Cloud there was one individual who pointed out that while we were hosting it ourselves, we could communicate perfectly well locally if the Internet feed went down. If it goes down now the email goes dark. The guy pointing it out was our former networking team leader.

The big gainer from all this? Linux.

[novemberslady]

That's the final nail for me.
It's been coming for a long time now.
But they love the jack boots more than my business.

[driftdiver]

I’ve used microsofts hosted solution for my company’s CRM. It worked ok but of course required internet access to see my data.

What wasn’t ok was their billing practices. Four months in a row they billed me 10 times what I owed. Kind of a shock to suddenly be $2,500 short in the account. By the 4th month they got it down to only taking 10 days to return my money.

They didn’t see the issue since they always corrected it, even if it took up to two months. Yes they said that.

When you decide the cancel you will end up paying, even if you are at the end of the term. Cancel early and you pay significant fees. Oh and they take the payment but won’t even tell you how much you owe.

So now they want me to give them this control over my PC? Time for linux.

[I cannot think of a name]

Yea, the six hours I spend on airlines every week - disconnected from the internet - don’t have to be productive. They can instead be wasted time.

That’s pretty much all Micoscam is these days anyway - wasted time.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Microsoft Windows 10 might become a cloud based operating system (OS) according to a leaked road-map.

As long as that means some BS like integrating support for Azure - fine, who cares. If it involves something ridiculous like moving major OS services off the client, goodbye Windows - but I can't imagine them doing something that idiotic and arrogant.

[OrangeHoof]

You know, I’m really happy with Win 7. I don’t like Win 8 and I’m not sure I’ll like Win 9 or 10 either.

[CGASMIA68]

I want nothing to do with The Cloud.

[Revolting cat!]

Microsoft blue screen will finally make logical sense!

[ari-freedom]

“If they do that, I predict it’ll be the biggest shot in the arm ever for Linux, and it’ll be a cold day in the realm of double hockey sticks before I let Billy Gates grab me by my data. “

More like a win for Apple, I’m afraid. Linux never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

[Washi]

And if your Internet connection goes down, you’ll have an expensive paperweight.

[Revolting cat!]

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.