Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy What could possibly go wrong? What if the Microsoft Cloud goes down? For instance, if a surgeon needs to access crucial information about their patients during an operation and can't due to technical issues in Windows PC in cloud. The cloud is bad for emergency use cases. Is MS going to guaranty 100% uptime?
On the bright side, it is a three-letter agency's wet dream to have access to Windows cloud PC. The future is not bright. I was told I would get flying cars. Instead, I'm getting a stupid cloud PC and AI that writes poems and draws pictures. Clown cloud 🤡
@nixCraft - Then it's no longer an OS, is it? Or when they make you start paying (say $4.95/month) monthly to keep your Windows box "properly licensed"? Nope. Still not an OS. It becomes a shittier version of a Chromebook, as if that were possible. Start playing NOW with things like Ubuntu Cinnamon desktop. It has 90% of the tools I use within Windows and WINE and LibVirt virtualization (to run that Windows 7 box forever in a VM) to fill in the cracks where needed. Seriously. It's time.
@nixCraft Abandon Windows Now. Ask me how. (Start now and you'll have plenty of time to adapt for yourself and then migrate "your users" into a new framework.) Bonus feature: your Ubuntu desktop is going to run faster than the Windows counterpart it replaces.
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The assumption of full connectivity between client and server is a pipe dream even if Microsoft could guarantee five nines of cloud uptime. Which they can't, and never will be able to. This is just not how anything works, and it's a little frightening that MSFT are even considering throwing massive resources towards a logistical impossibility.
@nixCraft “What if the Microsoft Cloud goes down?” We will do what we keep doing: rewarding them with more business and keep shifting more to the Microsoft 344 cloud with 94% uptime because it’s not our data center! 🙄
@nixCraft I would bet that if Microsoft dumps the desktop they'll dump Windows entirely. Average Joe won't pay Azure VM costs and the browser will become the OS (if it isn't already), booted from a corporate branded Linux kernel straight into Office 365. Windows was never designed as a server OS and the birth of the internet was it's death blow.
@nixCraft Thank god I'm using Windows only as glorified launcher to start the launchers that start my games. It's pretty ok for that. Wouldn't want to do anything serious with it tho.
@nixCraft On the bright side, Linux distributions for beginners (IMHO, most notably Fedora [1] and Linux Mint [2]) can cover most personal use cases. If all you need is a browser, maybe you could backup your data with Syncthing [3] and install one of these distributions, knowing you could switch back to Windows easily.
@nixCraft The only reason they're doing this is to control the entire OS, and of course that means everything is accessible to third-party advertisers and our least-favored government agencies (who will love being able to catalog us 24/7/365, no Fourth Amendment need apply). Really, I hope it does get hacked, so people will stop using that spyware OS and switch over to Linux.
@nixCraft Wait, Windows needs a computer to be installed on -- as far as I know and clouds are known for rain. So, if the Cloud goes down, should we develop now a umbrella to protect us against the expected Windows-rain.
@nixCraft They're safe. They're running Windows XP or something. The vendor of the expensive medical apparatus they need to work never bothered making a driver for a more recent system, so they stuck with it even after the end of its support by Microsoft. 😬
@nixCraft Yet another attempt to maximize profits by renting software instead of selling it. I already have enough reasons to hate M$. They don't need to add another one.
@nixCraft seems like an optional feature. Boot locally or in the cloud. Like Stadia(RIP)/gaikai(remember them?)/steam link(ok, technically not cloud) vs locally installed games.
It's great for thin clients with good bandwidth. Not fit for every scenario/use case.
@nixCraft in a perfect world business would abandon Microsoft products for any usecase that actually matters... But honestly this should already happen with the current state of Windows 10 or 11 and yet here we are.
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