Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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• axx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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• Batmorous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Kawolski analysis, what is Linux marketshare at currently?

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• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a really fancy way to say ‘dumb terminals to the mainframe’ … only without wires.

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  • RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except the mainframes are owned by a cabal of Nazi billionaires now.

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• SW42@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer

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  • Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Their security is only better if you don’t take into account how attractive they are as a target.

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    • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc

      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.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Microsoft’s computer

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    • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My(cro$softs) Computer

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reimagining my ass. You are selling a Citrix knockoff. Fuck off.

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• AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• kboos1@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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!

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It‘s really depressing how predictable enshittification has become. Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless.

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  • Takios@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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!

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And it doesn’t work if your ISP decides to shit on you

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• Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They clearly forgot what the p in pc means

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  • kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Profit?

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing:

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Microslop

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• underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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• NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like to reimagine Microsoft as a company that has zero value. Oh wait, they realised that by themselves!

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• PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• orioler25@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jfc, they’re really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.

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• Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I fucking knew it

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who is asking for this shit ? Do they even run consumer surveys ?

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  • uienia@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Corporations who want to fire their desktop support team.

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  • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shareholders want the line to go up. Trapping everyone into endlesss subscriptions is a great way to guarantee revenue.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • Johnmannesca@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why did you need a shitty AI image for this?

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    • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fuck off

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  • eli@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    3 arm Tux, nice!

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  • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Um…if the chair is spinning…why isn’t the coffee tilted? 🙃

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because AIs don’t understand physics. Or anatomy, given that Tux has three flippers here. (Nor do the upper swooshes make visual sense.)

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Install Linux Problem Solved.

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t trade general computing for general islop

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• ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Glad I uninstalled 365 and got Office 2024 instead, less than $20 and I don’t have to deal with this bullshit.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You could have got Collabora for free?

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• massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Much more like a stream of shit.

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• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I could not possiy care less.

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