Ugh, rent seeking. Typical
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Cool so not only do you need to power your local device you also need to power servers and eat up loads of internet bandwidth. Super efficient.
All so they can force you to pay a monthly subscription.... Thank Gaben Valve is investing so much in Linux gaming.
That's going to be interesting.
Here in Germany, we are forced to use Windows in schools because "it's what the kids need in the real world".
By forcing Windows to work cloud-only, they are literally making it illegal to use in schools here, because we can't force children to use anything doing data-harvesting in order to pursue their education.
Fun times ahead!
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This might be a hot take but I wonder how this would be priced.
It could be handy for cloud gaming (since gforce now publishers are trying to block it).
Lots of people missing the point here.
What if you had a tablet device that could go weeks without charging? It could handle basic tasks on its own, or more intensive tasks when connected to the internet?
Office 365 is a good example. Basic tasks of word can be handled by a cached web client, but if you need to do something more advanced and need the full version of word to run, the ARM architecture can’t run it so spin up a virtual instance and stream it to your arm device.
Windows 11 will have this baked in. It’s not a forced replacement of a local OS.
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"You will own nothing and you will love it" jesus. All in on OpenAI and automation.
I KNEW IT! I FREAKING KNEW IT! People always kept going on and on how I'm paranoid and here it is!
Doesn't Microsoft have the worst availability around for their cloud stuff? Or is IBM still giving them a run for their money?
It's going to be a very interesting day when someone misconfigures a dns router or something and half the world goes down.
Did you know Windows10 LTSC exists? It's mainly free of any telemetry and you can tweak it fully, and even remove Edge by force if you need to ( though I believe you can also force remove Edge in the normal versions). Been much happier with the version.
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