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Microsoft lets it sound like fewer PCs is a good idea, especially concerning the environmental impact, but they are treating vendor dependency and gouging in a
by dschuetz 3y ago
Microsoft lets it sound like fewer PCs is a good idea, especially concerning the environmental impact, but they are treating vendor dependency and gouging in a cloud like a non-issue for customers, and that a cloud outage could mean a single point of failure for businesses. Whoever buys into this must take into account that Microsoft has an increased interest in pulling all of their customers into cloud to exert power and control.
- rbanffy 3y agoConsidering even a thin client has abundant local compute power, I'm not sure where their border would lie. I use a couple Macs, all syncing data via iCloud, and a bunch of Linux machines that sync data via Dropbox (and local NFS in my home). Intermittent connection to the Internet is fine. As for corporations that are Microsoft-heavy, a lot of those are already in the single-point-of-failure point by relying on apps such as Exchange and Sharepoint, self-hosted or not.