Technology

Just another case of "you will own nothing...". Come on over to Linux, where the ISOs are plentiful.

Without reading the article, this smells a lot like #enshittification

What a terrible fucking idea

Assuming this is just fancy talk for Remote Desktop to the average user and hosted by MS.

I'm surprised they're bothering to focus on consumer devices instead of just going all-out on enterprise and business.

Cloud workstations make a lot of sense for when you need the extra grunt occasionally and have a rock-solid internet connection, but about the only reason the average consumer would want to use them on a portable device is gaming. Everything else you can do locally or as a web app.

And even gaming has been a bit rocky, though it has its small cult of followers.

I switched to Linux a long time ago, it's only getting better and better. After valve started making serious investments in the ecosystem it has only gotten better for desktop usage and it simply 'works' in ways that even windows struggles with, ie: ps4 controllers/switch controllers work ootb, gamescope allows significantly more control over how games are rendered and offers a true console-like experience combined with big picture UI.

This seems odd to me, I've dabbled with Linux before but I'm generally a macos guy where the os is the free bit. Charging for an os is outdated surely?

I suddenly feel an urge to install Arch

Ugh, rent seeking. Typical

Imagine all of that sweet sweet data they could harvest without any effort

Sounds like a great way to contribute to a surveillance state!

Cool so not only do you need to power your local device you also need to power servers and eat up loads of internet bandwidth. Super efficient.

All so they can force you to pay a monthly subscription.... Thank Gaben Valve is investing so much in Linux gaming.

That's going to be interesting.

Here in Germany, we are forced to use Windows in schools because "it's what the kids need in the real world".

By forcing Windows to work cloud-only, they are literally making it illegal to use in schools here, because we can't force children to use anything doing data-harvesting in order to pursue their education.

Fun times ahead!

Lots of people missing the point here.

What if you had a tablet device that could go weeks without charging? It could handle basic tasks on its own, or more intensive tasks when connected to the internet?

Office 365 is a good example. Basic tasks of word can be handled by a cached web client, but if you need to do something more advanced and need the full version of word to run, the ARM architecture can’t run it so spin up a virtual instance and stream it to your arm device.

Windows 11 will have this baked in. It’s not a forced replacement of a local OS.

It's going to be a very interesting day when someone misconfigures a dns router or something and half the world goes down.

Excel and Word in the cloud really suck, so let's do the whole operating system. Sure, why not?

"Sorry! You need to have an active internet connection in order to login to your windows computer. Try connecting to the internet and try again."
Can't wait to see this one day.

Yeah, stuff like this is why I just recently changed back to mac a week ago (after years of hating them). For gaming I swapped my Xbox X to PS5 too at the same time (the Xbox X can't even remote play in windows because I just get a black screen, which is embarressing for them).

Got sick of Edge hijacking my Chrome tabs randomly too. Things are getting worse in windows, not better

"You will own nothing and you will love it" jesus. All in on OpenAI and automation.

Sounds like they want more data

What is the best resource for learning other OS? I'm thinking Linux but am pretty open since I am not knowledgeable.

Too bad if you have shit internet.