It’s like the old IBM PCs, where you load the OS on your RAM but from the cloud instead of an 8-inch floppy disk.
We call these thin clients and terminals, nothing new here. Been around for 40 years… Move along.
Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage
Submitted 4 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 4 weeks ago
“Wow, this is worthless!” And expensive.
Can currently buy a $150 laptop that can actually do things offline. Fucking $349 for a piece of junk that can only do something when connected to the internet and with a paid subscription is utterly pointless besides fixing the artificial problem of new version updates, i.e. Windows 11 > Windows 12.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
So… a shittier version of thin clients?
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
No, just a thin client
paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sounds like something someone blindly mocking Apple would joke about them releasing
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
No thanks. I’d rather not take a step back so that MS can make more money.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Surely this must be the final straw that broke the camel’s back of Microsoft’s PC dominance.
TheDoctor@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
2025 is the year of the Linux desktop
atyaz@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Surely they can’t wriggle themselves out if this one
InternetLefty@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Soon they’ll offer the hardware for free with a subscription and that will guarantee their dominance. Late capitalism in the imperial core will be really wacky with all the financialization, monopolization and the desperate urge to continue the generation of profit despite the conditions for that fading away (higher labor costs and less labor involved in production). Artificial scarcity is already the order of the day for most consumer goods, planned obsolescence too. The “everything-is-a-subscription-and-consumers-own-nothing” is all these ideas taken to the extreme. With guaranteed revenue, you don’t have to worry about trying to get the average consumer to buy more of your stuff with advertising, making their stuff break after a planned amount of time, or only offering them stuff in low quantities to keep the price high, etc - you have them for as long as they have a computer, or a TV, or a car, a house, clothes, food, etc.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Always trying to force the user into a walled garden with more subscriptions.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Flip side: these will 100% be hacked on by homelabbers and used for like a home-wide LCARS system or some shit like that.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
So, a 1980s terminal device. Where you pay rent to use your computer and access your files, and you own literally nothing. Watch the masses flock like sheep to it.