Comment on You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users

• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think this is likely the “new only Windows option” in the not so distant future. I think it shouldn’t exist.

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  • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And what will be the host from which you will run Cloud PC? Linux, macOS?

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    • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What sick moronic idiot would want a cloud pc that’s accessible via… a pc

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      • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • 0ddysseus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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_

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      • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have a confident guess about what Microsoft runs theirs on… it ain’t Windows.

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