• @BurningnnTree@lemmy.one
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    81 year ago

    I don’t get it, what’s the benefit of this? Why would your average joe want to use a cloud instance instead of running Windows locally? How does Microsoft benefit from this?

    • WasPentalive
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      51 year ago

      Microsoft gets to sell the sizzle, not the steak. They also have all your data since the OS is running on their computer, not yours. I guess this will make Windows a web app, working like NextCloud only on their machines.

    • @TheYang@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      As I posted elsewhere in the thread:

      If I don’t misunderstand things, and we are talking streaming everything to a thin client, then this:
      I think It’s terrible for consumers, especially long term, but there are short-term shinies which you wouldn’t have to deal with yourself (which you totally could of course)

      Cheap Chromebook-like Laptops, but can run Video Games, Video Encodings, Finite Element Analyses, Computational Fluid Dynamics etc no problem. “Your” PC can be accessible from your phone in a Pinch. You open a weird Link and got a Virus? No problem, just roll back your “PC” Your home floods/burns down? All the images from your children are still safe. Never being bothered by needing a hardware upgrade.