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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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So if I don't have an internet connection, I can't even boot my computer?
Big "you'll own nothing and be happy" energy.
While I personally hate this Idea as well, I have to admit, that there could certainly be rather significant upsides for users.
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.
Being able to run video games or other hardware intensive process would either require pricey hardware or they'd be streamed from a cloud service (which comes with a whole other bundle of issues to consider) as that computational power has to come from something physical somewhere. Offloading your OS to the cloud wouldn't affect that. PCs can already be accessed by phone if you have the right set up (dedicated IP hosting and a VPN) As for saving data in case of emergencies, we already have cloud based storage solutions that wouldn't be impacted by cloud based OS.
There is 0 reason to use a cloud based OS other than making sure people are tied to your service for the life of their computer. This feels like a solution to a problem no one has.
I believe the poster above you was referring to full cloud-hosted Virtual Desktops, not just cloud-hosted OS. The former would make a lot more sense and would indeed allow for need-based scaling of resources without any expensive local hardware. I think this is the future of the common man's computing experience - a nice monitor that also functions as a thin client to access web-hosted virtual desktops.
Yup, that was what I understood it to be, I'll admit to just skimming the article, but it seemed rather directly that?