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

• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you. Exactly. The term “cloud” is just code for “someone else’s computer” and as you say, there’s very little that cannot be done without it. And once you entrust your data to someone else’s hardware, all you really have are assurances and probabilities that what you expect will happen with it becomes what actually happens with it. No guarantees.

        And you pay for all this, monthly, until the end of time.

        I don’t blame anyone that wants to go that route, I use a freebie bit of cloud for phone photos myself, but anything of more import, nah. More “cloud” for everyone else, I suppose, because they can have my share.

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• 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_

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  • 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.

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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