in unison the word sh1t will echo across the globe?
Posted on 07/14/2021 2:13:30 PM PDT by upchuck
in unison the word sh1t will echo across the globe?
The windows are for them to look through, not you.
I do not use the cloud for any account or any data. Convenience has its price, and it seems many are willing to pay it (or unaware they are paying it).
“This has been around for a while. There are some real limitations to it, mostly with running slowly and the web versions of the Office Suite are stripped down versions.”
No Windows 365.
“Switched to Linux. Never going back.”
Same here.
A few years later I’m still quite comfortable with the move.
“ Millions will opt for this.”
And???
Millions voted for Joe and the Ho too. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Or, perhaps better stated, it doesn’t mean it’s a smart choice for many/most.
My desktop PCs are the mini supercomputers of yore.
I can run my own Climate Model at home. It’s totally kool.
Kudos to Bell Labs, TI, & Intel....
“This has been around for a while.”
Pretty much the same concept as what Citrix has been doing for years.
Organized ransomware.
Having worked in the IT industry for 38 years, in my last job I told all the younger IT Engineers on the team who were half my age that, what is new now, was old at one time and what is old now will be new again in the future...
They thought I was a dinosaur....
The cloud now is just a new name for a mainframe running payroll, AP, AR, GL, etc...
In between then and now you had something called Windows Terminal Services and Citrix...combined with machines called Thin Clients which were essentially dumb terminals connected to a mainframe.....
It all goes in cycles..
The network techs push it because they don't have to support physical machines but most users avoid it if they can. Good for the network admins but less than optimal for the users. We also have an issue with software that manufacturers will not license onto a virtual machine. We also have severe problems with links between files since they're not in a fixed network directory.
The autosaving and collaboration functions make for great marketing brochures but are outright dangerous.
Blue Screen of Death as a Service (BSODAS) — just around the corner.
Hoss
When your internet is down you have no Ability to do anything on your computer. Yay! Great stuff..... /sarc
this is nothing new, you could easily do this on both AWS and Azure 5 years ago.
But you could easily do it on prem with hyper-v server and your own hardware.
amazing how we used to have as400 machines and dumb terminals
then there was a computer in every home
Now, you can have a computer in the cloud and any dumb browser will work.
I remember that the first thing I ever did with winpe was add mstsc support.
If you already have Linux, why would you want to access Windows in the cloud? Unless your job required it, of course.
“Microsoft Announces Windows 365: a Desktop PC in the Cloud”
Windows 365 ... just another hackable version of Windows.
I would skip using a computer before I would use that.
In 1996 I was invited to a Radio City Music Hall intro gala for Oracle’s “Network Computer” which was supposed to do the same thing as this. Larry Ellison was on stage with some massive HP servers that would replace your disk and CPU and allow distributed apps and storage for massive enterprises cheaply. Bill Gates savagely mocked it, and it utterly failed. But I did get to meet Ellison and got a ton of Oracle swag and a 50% discount on our SQL license for a year, so it wasn’t a total loss.
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