Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
www.theverge.com
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.

  • @Doombot1@beehaw.orgEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    “Oh no, my wifi is down. Guess I can’t boot up my freaking computer any more”. I’m so fed up with Microsoft and the steaming pile of crap that it calls Windows… the only reason my main PC uses it is because I’m too lazy to switch it to Ubuntu. All of my other newer machines run Ubuntu.

  • @greeen_tomato@feddit.de
    9•1 year ago

    That sounds like a very dumb move for the consumer market. Who would be the target audience for this? Gamers would hate that because of increased input lack. My mom wouldn’t understand that she her PC wouldn’t work without internet.

    The only client for something like this would be enterprises so that they can buy cheap thin clients and have more control over compliance things.

  • @Jako301@feddit.de
    4•1 year ago

    Bis 2031 wird die LTSC Version von win 10 noch mit Sicherheitsupdates versorgt, solange werden ich wohl noch Windows nutzen. Danach ist Linux hoffentlich auf fast dem gleichen Level an Comfort.

      • @bAZtARd@feddit.de
        5•1 year ago

        Nein. Nein, beim besten Willen nicht. Klar kann man sich da toll seine komplette UI customizen aber der Treiber support ist nach wie vor unterirdisch und man muss sehr genau hinschauen welche Hardware man kauft damit auch alles garantiert ohne viel Handarbeit funktioniert.

        • @albert180@feddit.de
          9•1 year ago

          Also mein T470 läuft ohne jegliche Handarbeit mit Fedora. Man sollte halt eine gescheite Distro nehmen (also nicht Manjaro)

            • @silentm0on@feddit.de
              3•1 year ago

              Zum Browser starten vielleicht. Oder um zu programmieren oder LaTeX zu schreiben. Aber libreoffice ist imho nicht ansatzweise mit M$ Office zu vergleichen. Selbst gegen iWork kommt es imho nicht an. Des Weiteren ist Office online für mobile Endgeräte auch keine wirkliche Alternative. Die Applikation an sich ist schon unoptimierter Mist, wie soll es dann erst aussehen, wenn man nen Browser zwischen App und Maschine packt? Selbiges für Gimp vs Photoshop. Oder kdenlive vs Premiere oder FinalCut.

      • @Anekdoteles@feddit.de
        1•1 year ago

        Mein nächster Privatrechner wird wahrscheinlich auch eine Linux-Maschine. Derzeit habe ich nur das Problem, dass ich OneDrive als meinen privaten Cloud-Speicher benutze. Davon muss ich erst einmal wegkommen.

        • samsy
          2•1 year ago

          Nextcloud? Alternativ gibt es auch das Projekt “filebrowser” welches einfach Daten von einem Rechner im lokalen Netzwerk im Browser darstellt (ist etwas Leichtgewichtiger als NC)

  • @yoolio@feddit.de
    4•1 year ago

    Aus Sicht eines Mitarbeiters eines kleinen Betriebes: das wird bedeuten, dass Millionen von Unternehmenspcs Win10 laufen lassen bis zum St.Nimmerleinstag. Mac ist nur in Spezialfällen möglich (“Kreativbranche”), Linux ist vielleicht bei reiner Textverarbeitung vom Umstieg her vermittelbar, aber ich hab zig Programme drauf, die nur für Windows zur Verfügung gestellt werden und für die entsprechend auch nur Windows-Support angeboten wird.

    • Square
      9•1 year ago

      Dann wird’s Zeit mal andere Programme oder Hersteller zu suchen.

      • @yoolio@feddit.de
        4•1 year ago

        Und wo? Selbst programmieren vielleicht… Es gibt halt viele Felder, da gibt es exakt ein Programm von einem Hersteller.

  • @Cybermass@lemmy.world
    3•1 year ago

    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?

  • @zerotime@feddit.de
    2•1 year ago

    Clouds are a big problem. Especially if they are maintained by GAFAM. An OS in the Cloud is ridiculous! What if the servers get hacked?

  • @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
    2•1 year ago

    To be fair, so far it just seems like a nicer integration of Remote Desktop, where the remote PC becomes one of those Win+Tab Desktop views that already exist.

  • rhabarbaEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac?

    Linux: Unlikely. Although Red Hat has recently been lobbying very emphatically, Linux for enterprise applications is still a wonder bag. Windows is reasonably stable as far as essential system functions are concerned, Linux, on the other hand, is a patchwork and this is noticeable even in RHEL and SLES.

    macOS could well be an option. Apple tries to strictly follow the principle that user privacy plays an essential role (they converted me from Android to iOS with this), but I assume that macOS will also move “into the cloud” in the medium term (Service note: “The cloud” is just other people’s computers.) as soon as Apple will have created a way to learn from the mistakes of others after years of watching the market. They always do.

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺English
      5•1 year ago

      for enterprises there might be a simple necessity to move on then.

      Having your OS run in a Cloud where god knows who has access too and being completely at the whim of a single companies decisions, leaving alone the extreme vulnerability of such a system, is illegal for many businesses or would barr them from having access to regulated industries such as water, energy, healthcare and defense.

      My company for instance is simply not allowed to do such shenanigans. We always have to go through a lot of hoops to use a simple SaaS tool.

    • @greeen_tomato@feddit.deEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Why would Apple do that? One of their biggest pros is that they have powerful machines, that are capable of more than an off the shelf PC Laptop. They even produce their own chips now. Why would anybody pay 4000+ $ for something that is essentially a thin client that just connects a display and some peripherals to a cloud?

      In addition it would be very hard to convince their tech savvy consumers that a move to a cloud hosted OS would benefit privacy, which has become a bigger selling point over the recent years for them?