Comment on The Windows 11 problem
corbin@infosec.pub 11 months agoThe subscription rumor was debunked pretty quickly. I honestly don’t see that happening anytime soon, PC makers would get pretty upset (especially if they don’t get a cut of the revenue).
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, it’s coming. And for thin clients it’s already here.
corbin@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Yes, that’s reporting on the “leak” from Neowin, which Neowin later redacted because there wasn’t actually enough evidence: neowin.net/…/microsoft-might-want-to-be-making-wi…
Windows 365 is a cloud streaming PC that isn’t even available to consumers yet.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had not seen that newer Neowin article, thank you for the correction.
But Windows 365 is certainly available to business and enterprise users right now. When they roll it out to home users is a separate matter. I would add that home users are not usually thin client users, lol: even Chromebooks have a limited OS on them.
corbin@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Yes, Microsoft had an internal presentation with poorly-worded language that said Windows will “move” to the cloud, the whole presentation slide makes it clear they’re talking about Windows in the cloud as an option: theverge.com/…/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consume…
Forcing everyone to stream Windows from a cloud server would not work well for the vast majority of PCs and internet connections. Microsoft isn’t dumb, they’re not going to try that and lose even more market share to Apple.