Windows 365

[Deleted member 202104]

Ugh. Coming in August for Business. I wonder how soon they want to move this into home use.

Welcome to your Windows 365 Cloud PC | Windows 365

Stream your desktop, apps, settings, and content from the Microsoft cloud to any device and have a personalized Windows experience wherever you are.

www.microsoft.com

 

[windwhirl]

Ugh. Coming in August for Business. I wonder how soon they want to move this into home use.

Welcome to your Windows 365 Cloud PC | Windows 365

Stream your desktop, apps, settings, and content from the Microsoft cloud to any device and have a personalized Windows experience wherever you are.

www.microsoft.com

I legit fail to see its use case?

I mean, outside of a normal scenario like people doing remote work for whatever reason.

 

[Splinterdog]

Could be very useful for people on the move and perhaps with older devices.
I like the idea.

 

[P4-630]

The Cloud PC is not connected to a Microsoft account, but only works via an Azure Active Directory, the company must have a license for Windows 365 Business or Enterprise.

With Windows 365 it should be possible to work from a Mac, iPad, Linux or Android device with the Windows environment as it would work on a fixed PC. Employees with a Cloud PC would no longer need their own computer, Windows 365 can be used via a native application or web browser, for which a very simple and cheap system should suffice.

 

[eidairaman1]

The Cloud PC is not connected to a Microsoft account, but only works via an Azure Active Directory, the company must have a license for Windows 365 Business or Enterprise.

With Windows 365 it should be possible to work from a Mac, iPad, Linux or Android device with the Windows environment as it would work on a fixed PC. Employees with a Cloud PC would no longer need their own computer, Windows 365 can be used via a native application or web browser, for which a very simple and cheap system should suffice.

Oh how we have come full circle, same crap in 60s-80s.

 

[Bill_Bright]

Could be very useful for people on the move and perhaps with older devices.

I think more for the newest devices with lots of RAM, fast processors, and super fast network connections. The hardware itself could be very "light" otherwise - just a front-end, if you will, to the OS, apps and data that are stored and running out in the cloud. IF one could trust the security, it could be very nice. But did you notice the size of that "IF"?

It would be like the old days when you worked at a "workstation" and everything you did was being "served" by a networked server or even a mainframe. Only this time, everything is served from severs out in the cloud. I suspect this is the future.

 

[Fangio1951]

This brings back memories of the 1980's = WYSE dumb terminals - thin client.

 

[qubit]

This is the true Windows SaaS treadmill that Microsoft wants to get us on, sigh.

 

[newtekie1]

So they are basically reselling space on a RDP server? Meh, I could see it being useful for some people.

 

[MentalAcetylide]

I think more for the newest devices with lots of RAM, fast processors, and super fast network connections. The hardware itself could be very "light" otherwise - just a front-end, if you will, to the OS, apps and data that are stored and running out in the cloud. IF one could trust the security, it could be very nice. But did you notice the size of that "IF"?

It would be like the old days when you worked at a "workstation" and everything you did was being "served" by a networked server or even a mainframe. Only this time, everything is served from severs out in the cloud. I suspect this is the future.

Nope, can't trust the security. IF this is the shit-covered road everyone is going to choose to travel, might as well make life in general one big virtual reality if we're becoming too lazy to physically go to work. How long before we start using telemarketing-type centers in India(or any other country with cheap labor) to handle local office work?

 

[R-T-B]

Nope, can't trust the security. IF this is the shit-covered road everyone is going to choose to travel, might as well make life in general one big virtual reality if we're becoming too lazy to physically go to work. How long before we start using telemarketing-type centers in India(or any other country with cheap labor) to handle local office work?

You need to make it sound less appealing if you are against it.

 

[MentalAcetylide]

You need to make it sound less appealing if you are against it.

Well, we will probably all end up like Pearl, the huge and can't-stand-or-roll-over vampire in the movie "Blade". That any better?
Just saying, we're getting really lazy/cheap in areas we shouldn't be, given how reliant we're becoming on it.

 

[R-T-B]

I dunno, I find work-at-home to be a godsend, being physically disabled and all.

For a lot of sectors there is almost no legit reason to go in, as well.

 

[Mussels]

I dunno, I find work-at-home to be a godsend, being physically disabled and all.

For a lot of sectors there is almost no legit reason to go in, as well.

me too froggo, me too

This is a way to get businesses cheap windows systems i guess... throw it on a chromecast with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and every employee with a phone suddenly has a desktop to work from home or wherever they are


what i fail to see is how many of these 'portable' or lightweight scenarios actually need windows - if a task is so simple it can be done via a touch screen phone or a lightweight client PC, why need a consumer/home OS?

 

[milewski1015]

My coworker mentioned this to me today. We have a number of clients that collaborate with individuals that aren't actual employees of the company, think gov't organization-funded contractors, etc. To be able to spin them up a virtual workstation instead of having to jump through the different hoops currently required to grant them the access they need while still maintaining compliance sounds like a promising idea. Like Bill said though, the viability all rests on whether the security can be trusted. Interested to see what this holds in the future. I don't see it being all that useful for personal use though.

 

[qubit]

I dunno, I find work-at-home to be a godsend, being physically disabled and all.

For a lot of sectors there is almost no legit reason to go in, as well.

+1 on that. I suffer from poor sleep, which often makes physically going to work hell and tends to make me late for work, too. Working from home puts much less strain on me, with this condition.

 

[claes]

The end of PC begins (or or... something)

 

[windwhirl]

what i fail to see is how many of these 'portable' or lightweight scenarios actually need windows - if a task is so simple it can be done via a touch screen phone or a lightweight client PC, why need a consumer/home OS?

I take it you can execute your own custom Windows applications in this cloud PC. In such case, you could have some use for it that doesn't fit your work device

 

[1freedude]

"What OS are you gonna use for Windows?"

"On Mondays, I'll use Windows, on Tuesdays, I'll use Mint, on Wednesdays, Android, Thursdays, Chrome, and Fridays, well its dress down day, so I'll use my Mac."

 

[Bill_Bright]

thin client.

Yeah. "Thin" - that's the word I was searching for when I said "light".

Sorry, I sometimes suffer from acute GCF (geriatric cranial flatulence) and forget things.

if we're becoming too lazy to physically go to work.

Whoa! That is not a fair statement at all. In fact, I don't think you meant it but I find it extremely disrespectful and I would expect many would find it insulting too - and I'm retired.

Assuming someone is physically able, not wanting to physically go to work has absolutely NOTHING to do with laziness. Do your homework. It is a proven fact that during COVID quarantine, in most cases, productivity did not fall. In fact, it went up in many cases. And studies indicate working from home productivity will continue to rise even after COVID is over (assuming that actually happens - get vaccinated people - it is not a political issue!) and the "new normal" sets in.

This is why many managers and execs are NOT demanding their employees come back full time, but instead, are making working from home even easier and more attractive.

Sure there are exceptions. But if someone is just too lazy to physically go to work, then they are just lazy people - people who are lazy when physically at work too.

Then there are the many many other advantages to working from home.

Fewer vehicles on the road during "rush hour".​

Fewer wear and tear miles on our cars (including tires and brakes).​

Zero lost hours of our lives, "sitting" in traffic.​

Fewer accidents.​

Lower fuel costs.​

Physical office space can be smaller, have fewer desks or workspaces because they can be shared.​

In many cases, lower car insurance costs (due to fewer miles driven per year).​

Flexible hours.​

You get to use your own bathroom!!!​

Nobody steals your food out of the fridge - hopefully.​

Your dog does not miss you and tear up the couch or make a mess of the kitchen trash.​

I could go on and on.​

And of course, there are many jobs where working from home is impractical or even impossible. But they are not part of this discussion.

 

[Selaya]

I take it you can execute your own custom Windows applications in this cloud PC. In such case, you could have some use for it that doesn't fit your work device

Would immediately defeat the purpose of this unless you can spin up your own server (which I very much doubt). Because this is quite literally arbitrary code execution in its (potentially) most dangerous form, right there.

 

[Bill_Bright]

Would immediately defeat the purpose of this unless you can spin up your own server

Why would you need your own server? I don't see why you would. You would have your own virtual server in the cloud.

 

[Vayra86]

I legit fail to see its use case?

I mean, outside of a normal scenario like people doing remote work for whatever reason.

Enterprise and thin and light devices for consumer. Lets face it, you can do a lot more on battery if all you do is receive and not resolve.

Its up to us to keep desktop alive. Like gaming, the market diversifies...

 

[P4-630]

At least you don't pay the ransom when the cloud got infected by ransomware....

 

[Selaya]

Why would you need your own server? I don't see why you would. You would have your own virtual server in the cloud.

Controlling your neighbors to make sure they don't intentionally pwn you?