Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
You might boot laptops straight into a cloud OS in the future
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/tech/t/103751
If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.
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I mean as someone who programs and likes the ability to host a server or do whatever I want on my computer if this was the only option for windows I would %100 use the current installation until forced upgrade then switch to Linux.
I don't even know how this would be possible or make sense to use for literally 90% of users, who's gonna pay monthly fee for a slower, glitchier and less functional product?
It’s highly unlike that this would replace Windows entirely; it would probably be more like a thin client used to access applications requiring high computing power. The preview they show in the article is like an extra desktop. Think of it like this: you’ve got your normal Windows OS sitting on your physical hardware, but you can also connect to “your” instance of Windows Cloud to do heavy rendering or fire up an AI model.
Okay wait so is it a thin client like web hosted windows instance or is it like a remote windows server for large processing?
In my experience thin clients are laggy, and lack any ability to do serious real time rendering, they have difficulties updating when lots of information is being sent.
If it was just windows on a server for you use that could be useful but any sort of back and forth data transmission would kill it's effectiveness unless all the data transmission happened at the end of a processes execution.
This article from April 2022 has some more details. It sounds like Microsoft is planning to implement several different options depending on your use case. This will probably be most commonly used by businesses, not consumers.