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.
So… a shittier version of thin clients?
Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage
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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago
No thanks. I’d rather not take a step back so that MS can make more money.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This device is marketed toward businesses and enterprise customers, especially as these organizations sometimes replace their computers every two to five years.
These only make sense for companies. Thin clients aren’t new in the slightest. They make even more sense for companies where people might be transitioning between locations frequently. Sit down, log in, and everything you need is there from basically any office computer. Same building or different continent…doesn’t matter.
For a home user…just don’t.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
We call these thin clients and terminals, nothing new here. Been around for 40 years… Move along.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 hours 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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Always trying to force the user into a walled garden with more subscriptions.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 6 hours 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.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Surely this must be the final straw that broke the camel’s back of Microsoft’s PC dominance.
TheDoctor@hexbear.net 1 hour ago
2025 is the year of the Linux desktop
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 hours 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.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Sounds like something someone blindly mocking Apple would joke about them releasing