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"We’re going to make Windows cloud native. We’re making a big push for Windows 365 ." "Windows and cloud is going to be a game changer for us in the arc of tim

"We’re going to make Windows cloud native. We’re making a big push for Windows 365 ." "Windows and cloud is going to be a game changer for us in the arc of time," says Davuluri. It sounds like they are planning on making Windows a subscription-based operating system. Not too surprising given their need for continual revenue, but they haven't announced it as such yet.

rolph 2y ago
as a whole the effort points toward a specific managed hardware ~dumb terminal like device, that accesses windows as a service, and does little else except analyse meta data, and inject the proscribed ad
pjmlp 2y ago
With the Web winning, and RDP already being a common use case in many corporations, we are back to timesharing. Additionally when all we have are thin clients, it is impossible to prevent data collection from the client side.
- donmcronald 2y ago
  Once everything is in “the cloud” the vendor lock-in will be insane and prices for everything will skyrocket.
  - petre 2y ago
    Not to mention hacks and attacks by state actors and also outages like the one that took place today. Oracle and friends also tried in the 90s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
  - type0 2y ago
    Makes sense, it will be a terminal with total recall functionality
  - Aerroon 2y ago
    Also, don't forget the ads!
gmerc 2y ago
All your recall data will be local. on your cloud based windows. Fuck you Microsoft.
- doubled112 2y ago
  There is no way this could ever be abused.
  - JohnClark1337 2y ago
    [dead]
_mlbt 2y ago
I think they would have to either bundle it together with an existing subscription or have a free ad supported tier in order to make this work. The precedent has been set that the OS just comes with the computer for free. People don’t even pay for upgrades anymore. Doing anything else would cause an exodus to Mac and Linux or just staying on the last non subscription version indefinitely.

rolph 2y ago

as a whole the effort points toward a specific managed hardware ~dumb terminal like device, that accesses windows as a service, and does little else except analyse meta data, and inject the proscribed ad

pjmlp 2y ago

With the Web winning, and RDP already being a common use case in many corporations, we are back to timesharing. Additionally when all we have are thin clients, it is impossible to prevent data collection from the client side.

donmcronald 2y ago
Once everything is in “the cloud” the vendor lock-in will be insane and prices for everything will skyrocket.
- petre 2y ago
  Not to mention hacks and attacks by state actors and also outages like the one that took place today. Oracle and friends also tried in the 90s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
- type0 2y ago
  Makes sense, it will be a terminal with total recall functionality
- Aerroon 2y ago
  Also, don't forget the ads!

gmerc 2y ago

All your recall data will be local. on your cloud based windows. Fuck you Microsoft.

doubled112 2y ago
There is no way this could ever be abused.
- JohnClark1337 2y ago
  [dead]

_mlbt 2y ago

I think they would have to either bundle it together with an existing subscription or have a free ad supported tier in order to make this work. The precedent has been set that the OS just comes with the computer for free. People don’t even pay for upgrades anymore. Doing anything else would cause an exodus to Mac and Linux or just staying on the last non subscription version indefinitely.