Without reading the article, this smells a lot like #enshittification
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Before you know it, you'll need a active subscription, power and internet to open your butt plug to take a shit.
Just another case of "you will own nothing...". Come on over to Linux, where the ISOs are plentiful.
Did nobody read the article? Nowhere does it say they would make Windows cloud-only. They're talking about renting out virtual machines.
Did nobody read the article?
Doesn't sound like it. Some people even admitted that straight up.
I don't see anywhere they are saying that they are getting rid of installed Windows, just providing a different avenue of Windows usage, something to compete with the ChromeOS type of uasge.
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This seems odd to me, I've dabbled with Linux before but I'm generally a macos guy where the os is the free bit. Charging for an os is outdated surely?
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Just another move toward " you will own nothing and you will be happy". Gotta resist the botnet people, Free software anarchy ftw!
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What a terrible fucking idea
Excel and Word in the cloud really suck, so let's do the whole operating system. Sure, why not?
That’s a big nope for me.
Internet goes out? I can still do some amount of work, now I need power and internet to both work to do any work at all.
Not a fan of this and I will not embrace it.
Assuming this is just fancy talk for Remote Desktop to the average user and hosted by MS.
Yeah, stuff like this is why I just recently changed back to mac a week ago (after years of hating them). For gaming I swapped my Xbox X to PS5 too at the same time (the Xbox X can't even remote play in windows because I just get a black screen, which is embarressing for them).
Got sick of Edge hijacking my Chrome tabs randomly too. Things are getting worse in windows, not better
I haven't run Linux in ages (2012 maybe?) But I'm about ready to give it another look. I use windows on my machine less and less frequently, and it seems like it's never been easier to switch to something less "taking all the control away from the user" focused.
I've been using Linux at home for ages (20-25 years ) and haven't missed the "Windows experience" one bit.
More reasons to switch to Linux and stay there.
Once you're logged into Windows 365 you're technically using their hardware and just streaming the use to your machine. You will have almost no control over your own device because it isn't actually your own device. Your own device has been turned into a television, a device that just plays what another device is displaying.
This is about property and ownership and how Microsoft wants to take those things away from you. They want full control of how you use their operating system, and when they force users to use their software and hardware, they will acheive it.