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.
Maybe there’s a use case, but I’m anti-cloud and always will be. I struggle to think of a situation I couldn’t do better with in-house (or even air gapped) VMs of my own.
Anyone who watches 365 uptime knows that Microsoft’s cloud is a fragile laughing stock. They use a Twitter account because their own status portal is so laughably trash and unreliable. If you don’t believe me I don’t blame you. Here it is.
The day I trust any cloud platform (Especially Microsoft) is the day I promise to jump off a cliff.
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.
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.
Reygle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe there’s a use case, but I’m anti-cloud and always will be. I struggle to think of a situation I couldn’t do better with in-house (or even air gapped) VMs of my own.
Anyone who watches 365 uptime knows that Microsoft’s cloud is a fragile laughing stock. They use a Twitter account because their own status portal is so laughably trash and unreliable. If you don’t believe me I don’t blame you. Here it is.
The day I trust any cloud platform (Especially Microsoft) is the day I promise to jump off a cliff.
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.