For all things Windows.
Pretty sure I can sell my laptop for that amount
in tiny fonts: the data you upload to the cloud will be used for AI training purposes
Yet people keep making fun of Apple for putting the power button on the bottom.
At least it works offline.
This makes less than no sense, for $349 you can easily buy a computer that can stream a desktop, hell any computer capable of streaming another computer is inherently capable of offline work, this has absolutely no value add to anyone except Microsoft and not even that since people can make literally any other choice.
No matter what we said about it. There will be people who will eagerly put their mouth on Microsoft's asshole, waiting to swallow any removed products that Microsoft shit out
My Thinkpad T440p cost less then half that and many mini PCs cost around that much.
This is getting closer to the meme about the Javascript-based streamed operating system.
The only explanation I will now accept for how pointlessly laggy Windows can be is that Microsoft was deliberately increasing the latency to prepare customers for an online-only OS. Curse them.
You can get an x86_64 mini pc for that same price. Or you can buy a used mid gaming rig for that same price.
Why is it so expensive? You can buy a fully functioning laptop with a local windows install for way less.
Even the new mac mini is $599 and that's a full on computer with really good performance.
Jesus Christ..
And if you thought Microsoft could not get worse...
Oh...so they just want to take all control away from the user? I won't be buying that, I'm sure it eats up a fuck ton of bandwidth too
It has begun
It’s a thin client…
But it's a new and revolutionary thin client. It's got 365 in the name, anyway.
It's new and revolutionary in that it's worthless because you can only run Microsoft shit on this and makes you lock yourself 100% in with a vendor notorious for not giving a single shit about customers
99.9% of consumers couldn't care less.
Nice, more e-waste... Also, if it's just streaming from the cloud, how is it so expensive? Its on the same range as a steam deck.
😎 profit, synergy, enterprise, buzzword.
Burn it with fire
😨
Words can't express how much I don't want this.
The article mentions this is aimed at enterprises who are already probably doing something like this with vmware ESXi
Doubt it'll ever catch on with anything except maybe the largest of orgs. You can just procure office task ready machines so cheaply these days, and Windows 365 is like $45/user/month. Far more than what we pay for windows licensing, user Cals, and office licensing all combined.
Yep for managing "thin clients" I'd been expecting something like this someday.