Microslop
Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'
Submitted 3 weeks ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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kboos1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Streaming cloud PC
Now you just need this $500 device that’s about as powerful as a Roku to stream a virtual PC to your home. You will store all of your data on the cloud, you will own nothing and we will sell your data for profit. All for just $19.99 a month.
Your PC as a service!
As a bonus, when one persons account is hacked then everyone’s data is exposed! By agreeing to use our service to waive all rights to sue or reclaim any data. You get to pay a monthly fee for accessing your private data, what could be better!
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
And if you do something we don’t like, we’ll lock you out of your account and all of your data without any recourse!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And it doesn’t work if your ISP decides to shit on you
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It‘s really depressing how predictable enshittification has become. Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless.
Jako302@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless
This is wrong and that’s the main issue. Most people don’t hate it, they are mostly indifferent and some may even think its a good thing. Most won’t notice any difference.
They actively thank Google for keeping their entire location data (maps timeline), why should it be any different with microslop keeping their files “safe”
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I have a solution, is anyone interested?
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
They clearly forgot what the p in pc means
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Profit?
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of talking about property with communists. Private property should be abolished, but personal property is different, that you can have, until someone wants it strongly enough for it to be considered private property.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Company”
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Reimagining my ass. You are selling a Citrix knockoff. Fuck off.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
mrspaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Little guy. :( I feel you, buddy.
boogiebored@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hate microslop so fucking much. This whole idea of only the elite monopolies owning all computer power and renting out to us is an affront to humanity.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn’t effect my computer. And I’m excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.
It doesn’t have to be like this, you too can be immune
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have Zorin os on my main laptop and migrating my main desktop. Will try to get my kids desktop to Zorin too, his was my test subject and it crashed and burned. Everyday I see more and more issues and performance drops with client computers on win11. One or two I’d chalk up to user errors, but now brand new devices I deploy with 32gb of ram struggling to connect to and RDP connection. Fuck windows 11 and all the AI horseshit.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s great parenting. My daughter had only known Linux until she started 7th grade this year and got a school windows laptop. She hates that thing with passion. I’m so proud of her 😍
axx@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I like to reimagine Microsoft as a company that has zero value. Oh wait, they realised that by themselves!
underisk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
That’s what they want, and there’s what you the customer want.
Prices of items and services affect the difference. They’ve judged they have enough dough to close the gap. I don’t know if they do.
Then, if they do, there’s the stickiness of that state. Or how long until alternative personal computing industry evolves outside of power of those interested in it.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MS AI guard collects all your personal information and stores it safely on our servers and is used to make your experience better by training AI on everything you do.
AI guard watches how you communicate with your friends and family and can replicate live video and voice of you. Once AI guard has driven away everyone you love and care about through deception you can finally settle into the new normal. Just AI guard and you.
AI guard is like a teacher, tech support, lover, and spiritual counselor. It will make all the decisions for your operating system and your life. AI guard is your new god.
please_send_me_nudes_girl@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It will be used to sell executives better metrics which employees to fire. Working with such an OS is like digging your own hole every day ever so slightly.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Welcome! To ZOMBO com!
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a really fancy way to say ‘dumb terminals to the mainframe’ … only without wires.
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Except the mainframes are owned by a cabal of Nazi billionaires now.
IronBird@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
always have been
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Microsoft innovating so hard it’s bringing us back to the 80s
jkercher@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
That’s fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not a bloated AI spyware box that they want.
I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much you can do with a CPU under 100mhz when there isn’t an operating system in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We’ve been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating is in that wrong direction.
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way
Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds doombuds.com which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.
jkercher@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It’s the stack. We’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.
Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don’t even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.
PushButton@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The cloud bullshit is such a racket. The only thing you are scaling is your invoices.
Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the beginning, for the issues when the service goes down, and the obvious security/privacy issues.
They started to sell it as a stable solution, with no down time, which we all know it’s a lie and I don’t have to talk about the privacy issues: just look at your lenny frontpage.
We have to stop with that bullshit, we have to stop pretending that the cloud is a solution.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I bet people will use it anyways 😥
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably not nearly as much as M$ hopes, tho - especially since it will require a stable Internet connection.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I fucking knew it
AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are preparing for a world where we don’t own things and get free use of the things they choose for us to use, when they want us to use them. Act now, before it’s too late. Death by a thousand cuts, so goes society.
vane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who is asking for this shit ? Do they even run consumer surveys ?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Corporations who want to fire their desktop support team.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shareholders want the line to go up. Trapping everyone into endlesss subscriptions is a great way to guarantee revenue.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Except the trap works when their subscription services are still competitive, and locally hosted solutions are part of competition regardless of what they want.
There are industry-wide attempts to ramp up complexity of everything, so that everything were more centralized and local solutions harder to support. I’m not sure what they hope for.
Home consumers can be trapped this way, but they are subject to competition from many businesses.
Also while crypto stuff is unpleasant, it involves decentralized commercial calculation with some of the solutions, meaning possibility of automated service choice in a decentralized network. You can in theory have an alternative to Office 365 running in such a network paid for with Ethereum or TON or something similar. I haven’t researched this supposition.
Businesses are harder to trap this way, because they usually can afford an employee or two to support basic local solutions. Or to pay another small business of 3-4 people doing that.
Or one can think of (playing EU4 right now, so a limited set of associations) gunpowder and chinaware production in Europe, the secrets of both were slowly and steadily spreading, until they were no longer secrets. Here it’s not as much about secrets as it is about evolution catching up with revolution.
The commonality of people just needing to do their work and willing to use computers to help it is slower to react to change than big corporations, but big corporations can’t direct their reaction, they can only slow it down.
So - renting computational resources you possess right now is hard and big cloud providers are doing it, while people just owning hardware don’t. That’s the problem to be solved. Things like boinc and seti@home were altruistic, and I think there’s a similar distributed hentai hosting. The problem is in making such a market for everyone.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Why would they ask consumers what they want when they can tell consumers what they want. What are you gonna do, move to Linux?
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One would hope for a more broad institutional change like schools or workplaces not renewing contracts, but individual action matters too. Closest schools ever got in the US was with Chromebooks, and at least a few places in the EU are ditching MS for better options.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Shareholders are asking for it, since monthly recurring revenue is great for profit sheets.
They run plenty of surveys, but the results go right in the trash.
uienia@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shareholders are asking for it, noone else. Consumers are irrelevant serfs who doesn’t provide the majority of profits anyway, so it is inconsequential what they think.
Batmorous@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kawolski analysis, what is Linux marketshare at currently?
addie@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
100% of supercomputers, 80% of mobile devices (as Android), 4 or 5% of desktops depending on whether you count ChromeOS. Desktop share is a few percent higher if you just count gaming PCs, eg. the Steam survey, since it’s more widely used at home than on business machines.
The rate of adoption is accelerating, too - slowly but steadily.
Batmorous@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s very strange… it was reported at 4-5% last year too wasn’t it. Rico, why is it the same percentage as then and why is the acceleration still slow?
orioler25@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jfc, they’re really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.
goatinspace@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
eli@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
3 arm Tux, nice!
Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Um…if the chair is spinning…why isn’t the coffee tilted? 🙃
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Because AIs don’t understand physics. Or anatomy, given that Tux has three flippers here. (Nor do the upper swooshes make visual sense.)
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Microsoft has lost the ball a long time ago
rektdeckard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dropped the plot a ways back, too
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dropped it then lost it.
Void@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
You will own nothing and you will be happy. Bezos already laid the ground for this when he mused about everything living in the cloud a while ago. And where things are going with hardware prices, they think they can make it happen sooner rather than later, is my guess.
morto@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It might be some kind of bias playing tricks on me, but it really gives me the impression that since those corporations started embracing ai and claiming that they use high percentages of it in their work, some trend of things stopping working has been on the rise. I swear those services from big companies used to be considered so highly available and stable, that people would be incredulous if they stopped.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Microslop: “We don’t want you running Windows locally anymore.” Okay. (Installs Linux) Microslop: “WAIT NO THAT’S NOT WHAT WE MEAN”
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For a while there it look like Microsoft was changing from the EEE company of the 90s. They couldn’t pretend they knew what they were doing for very long though and here we are. They evolved from evil and stupid to just stupid.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Install Linux Problem Solved.
LefterShark@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m happy to sere M$ ruin themselves further.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Enclosures really worked well the first time, boy how.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand, we had this in the 90’s and it didn’t work then. No company or user wanted their whole desktop to be offsite.
SW42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer
Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They are a big company. Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc. *"So please do all your banking and company research in our cloudcomputer… " *- (/s for measure)
Mac@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Their security is only better if you don’t take into account how attractive they are as a target.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
At this point it’s on purpose by Micro$lop. The SharePoint vulnerability last year was the prime example of that. They fixed the problem on their servers, then told everyone about it, and released a patch.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Microsoft’s computer
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My(cro$softs) Computer
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Me prefer maxi hard computer
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Fixed that for you.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
The cloud is the mix of methane and sulfur based compounds that is emitted as flatus.