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Oh no! What is you doing? This looks interesting on second thought. A good way to consolidate workplace systems for low-bandwidth display applications where co

Oh no! What is you doing? This looks interesting on second thought. A good way to consolidate workplace systems for low-bandwidth display applications where consistently low latency is not a big concern. I hope that this is not the beginning of the next iteration of Windows for the general consumers. I like the OS, and I'd like it to remain on my hard drive.

basch 5y ago
It's also infinitely easier for Microsoft to improve and protect world security by controlling all network data going into and coming out of a device. A framebuffer delivered to your monitor means Microsoft can run all its advanced threat detection magic with no regard for what network a monitor is plugged into. The millions of unprotected businesses of the world can skip zerotrust / firewall / antivirus / network redesigns and jump right to pc-aas with azure-ad. For all the "I dont want big brother controlling my device" there should be an equal "I dont want teams with millions of dollars carelessly building infrastructure that can be weaponized against society."
- hulitu 5y ago
  It is also a "say good bye to your data". Next MS innovation: backups in the cloud.
  - anthk 5y ago
    Ah, yes, dumb terminals. They are like 50 years late.
- lars-b2018 5y ago
  It can really come down to a business case. What are the chances or risk of a virus or ransomware occurring? And what are the potential costs and challenges of dealing with that? If I can reduce my exposure to information, legal and operational risk, which is hard to directly quantify and yet is ever-present, plus some anticipated reduction in operating expenses, it can start to look good for a large portion of businesses with office operations.
  - basch 5y ago
    Which is exactly why "but mah data" is less about privacy in an enterprise world, and more about standardization and portability. Owning your data in the enterprise context means being able to ship it around it a reusable way, and not some proprietary Microsoft blob that will never work anywhere else, or having it scattered across a million APIs with a million different schemas with zero tools to grab it all at once. The risk is less Microsoft ever reading your data and more never being able to divorce them at a later date. Entrenchment. Those are problems that exist similarly whether youre in the cloud, or something on prem that you bought, built or customized. Conversely, for anyco without good hygiene, standardized process, discipline, and respect for keeping things tidy, out of the box cloud process can be a godsend. It's not just minimization of risk, but built in architecture and integration and flow, which in and of itself can be more important than product features.
pope_meat 5y ago
No. You get a touch screen with a WPU. A Web Processing Unit, it will authenticate you as a valid subscriber and let you access the clouds CPU/GPU. You own nothin, you're a user. 2030.
- shadilay 5y ago
  Microsoft is a B2B corporation. Anything B2C only exists to prevent competition from rising up to take on it's real cash cow.
atatatat 5y ago
this + a future Surface Duo == winner of convergence for the masses.

basch 5y ago

It's also infinitely easier for Microsoft to improve and protect world security by controlling all network data going into and coming out of a device. A framebuffer delivered to your monitor means Microsoft can run all its advanced threat detection magic with no regard for what network a monitor is plugged into. The millions of unprotected businesses of the world can skip zerotrust / firewall / antivirus / network redesigns and jump right to pc-aas with azure-ad. For all the "I dont want big brother controlling my device" there should be an equal "I dont want teams with millions of dollars carelessly building infrastructure that can be weaponized against society."

hulitu 5y ago
It is also a "say good bye to your data". Next MS innovation: backups in the cloud.
- anthk 5y ago
  Ah, yes, dumb terminals. They are like 50 years late.
lars-b2018 5y ago
It can really come down to a business case. What are the chances or risk of a virus or ransomware occurring? And what are the potential costs and challenges of dealing with that? If I can reduce my exposure to information, legal and operational risk, which is hard to directly quantify and yet is ever-present, plus some anticipated reduction in operating expenses, it can start to look good for a large portion of businesses with office operations.
- basch 5y ago
  Which is exactly why "but mah data" is less about privacy in an enterprise world, and more about standardization and portability. Owning your data in the enterprise context means being able to ship it around it a reusable way, and not some proprietary Microsoft blob that will never work anywhere else, or having it scattered across a million APIs with a million different schemas with zero tools to grab it all at once. The risk is less Microsoft ever reading your data and more never being able to divorce them at a later date. Entrenchment. Those are problems that exist similarly whether youre in the cloud, or something on prem that you bought, built or customized. Conversely, for anyco without good hygiene, standardized process, discipline, and respect for keeping things tidy, out of the box cloud process can be a godsend. It's not just minimization of risk, but built in architecture and integration and flow, which in and of itself can be more important than product features.

pope_meat 5y ago

No. You get a touch screen with a WPU. A Web Processing Unit, it will authenticate you as a valid subscriber and let you access the clouds CPU/GPU. You own nothin, you're a user. 2030.

shadilay 5y ago
Microsoft is a B2B corporation. Anything B2C only exists to prevent competition from rising up to take on it's real cash cow.

atatatat 5y ago

this + a future Surface Duo == winner of convergence for the masses.