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Are you aware of "Windows in the Cloud"? It is only available to Enterprises but will be coming to Consumers.
Questions
What are YOUR thoughts about this?
What if this was Linux, would you still "think" the same?
Windows 365?
It does not align with the free and open source philosophy.
Sure it would run well on low powered devices since heavy lifting is done on someone else's computers, but I see ethical concerns.
Sure it would popularize Linux since many find it's instalation daunting. But to convince people to pay a subscription for a Linux based cloud service might not sell easy.
And if there is no internet service or a power outage, we are left in blind. However when the connection is restored we can continue to work with all the data in sync with all devices.
There is convenience and there is privacy.
So the question that needs to be asked is: Should we trade privacy for convenience? Definitely not.
Hi @Clarity :
I love it ~That is my way of working, I have my computer at home, but all my work is in the cloud.
I don't need an specific place to work, I can share everything with my team and co-workers... and of course, enhanced security and storage space... haha.. The main cons, YOU DEPEND ON THE NET, THE CONNECTION AND THE SPEED.
That's the main reason I started to work with puppylinux years ago. I didn't need a big OS like winshit but a small one, fast and with which I can access all my internet resources (I don't need an enormous OFFICE suite, but acces to google docs, presentations, calendar, slides, forms, sheets, drawings, tables, gmail, maps, word, invoice, zoom, prezi....... https://office.youfiles.net/ )
My beginning.- https://archive.org/details/turbopup_xtreme_v1 => (99.6Mb)
For those who think that is impossible in education: https://www.educacionfpydeportes.gob.es ... entor.html
So, What do I gotta have? An "EasyOS_net", haha
Assume you have a LAN with some PC and one PC that is more powerful and robust than all the others in the LAN. For year, in Wins, the ability to use a client to access a Wins running on the more powerful where ALL of the user work is done on the more powerful while the client is merely a remote client's keyboard/video/mouse (aka KVM) control user's needs being carried out on the robust PC.
So, the fact that MS may provide this same service in the cloud mimics the same ability on a Home's LAN.
Today, Ubuntu for years and most recent KDE allows exact services as a powerful platform for LAN clients who want to do the same as Wins has for decades.
The nature of this ability making this happen has been known to the industry as a Terminal-Server. Thus it can be done using the same client(s) to access either a Wins or a Linux home 'server' PC.
The cloud means that your cloud PC has some protections from the providers that can reduce any user's need to ever upgrade their home PCs. The home only needs to run the client to the cloud PC with all the power for their workloads.
This fact that MS is considering could be helpful to many users on various levels of need. If the price is right, this could be attractive on many levels. And, using something similar to AWS or other cloud machines, users dont need a powerful home PC as the RDP protocol is optimized with very low resource needs for a fully functional Linux/Wins desktop. Further, this appears to a user with RAPID response times as if this was happening in the home. ... not in the cloud.
Just a contributing thought to the OP questions.