Their primary use is enterprise not private consumers. Think of virtualized OS that can be provided for example to some random consultant that you can manage/protect. Or just provide more powerful PC on low end HW.
It’s costly though and not sure it ever gained traction because there always were alternatives like Citrix Desktops.
Can’t imagine it being the case, thin clients have existed for a very long time and Cloud PC is nothing revolutionary just an additional offering from Microsoft.
Reygle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think this is likely the “new only Windows option” in the not so distant future. I think it shouldn’t exist.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And what will be the host from which you will run Cloud PC? Linux, macOS?
Reygle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What sick moronic idiot would want a cloud pc that’s accessible via… a pc
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Their primary use is enterprise not private consumers. Think of virtualized OS that can be provided for example to some random consultant that you can manage/protect. Or just provide more powerful PC on low end HW.
It’s costly though and not sure it ever gained traction because there always were alternatives like Citrix Desktops.
0ddysseus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would say windows IoT would be the most likely to be prepackaged with new systems, since it’ll likely be a rolling changeover.
I’d expect that within 5 years that pretty much all home and business PCs running windows will be thin clients
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Can’t imagine it being the case, thin clients have existed for a very long time and Cloud PC is nothing revolutionary just an additional offering from Microsoft.
Reygle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a confident guess about what Microsoft runs theirs on… it ain’t Windows.