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MrMobodies:
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-want-to-bring-windows-11-to-the-cloud-for-all-users-including-you?

--- Quote ---Microsoft wants to bring Windows 11 to the cloud :bullshit: for ALL users, including you  :bullshit:
By Zac Bowden published 7 days ago

Microsoft is working on a Windows 365 subscription for consumers.

Windows 365 for consumers
An internal mockup of the Windows 365 Family subscription page. (Image credit: Windows Central)
What you need to know
An internal Microsoft document has revealed plans to bring Windows 365 to consumers.
Microsoft wants to move Windows 11 to the cloud  :bullshit:, and allow users to digitally roam  :bullshit: their PCs across devices.
Internally, the company has drawn up concepts for what a Windows 365 for Families might look like.
An internal document has revealed that Microsoft is building a consumer version of its Windows 365 cloud-PC streaming  :bullshit: service that will allow anybody to subscribe to a Windows PC hosted in the cloud  :bullshit: that can be accessed on any device. Windows 365 is already available for commercial customers, with both Windows 10 and Windows 11 cloud PCs available.

The news comes from a small snippet in a June 2022 document that was released as part of Microsoft's ongoing Xbox battle with the FTC. In one of the pages, Microsoft mentions plans to continue moving the Windows experience increasingly to the cloud  :bullshit: :

"Move Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud: Build on Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud  :bullshit: to any device. Use the *** power of the cloud :bullshit: and client to enable improved AI-powered services  :bullshit: and full roaming of people's digital experience  :bullshit: ."

The document also mentions AI services as a key differentiator, as well as being able to fully roam people's digital experiences :bullshit: across devices. Microsoft is already building deep Windows 365 integration into Windows 11, which will allow users to seamlessly switch to or automatically boot into a Windows 365 cloud PC on their devices.

Windows 365 for consumers (JOKE: WE VIEW THEM AS STUPID and make an edition accordingly.)

An internal mockup of the Windows 365 Family subscription setup experience. (Image credit: Windows Central)
Last year, I received some internal documents that detail some of the features that Microsoft has been considering for a consumer version of Windows 365, including * a family subscription that would include the ability for parents to drop in on their kids Cloud PCs :bullshit:  to help with homework or join in playing a video game.  :bullshit:
The documentation I've seen lists pricing for a consumer Cloud PC :bullshit: at $10 a month, but my sources say this was just a placeholder number and that an actual price for a Windows 365 subscription for consumers has not yet been finalized.

It's clear that Microsoft is eager to leverage its success with Xbox Cloud Gaming elsewhere in its portfolio. Bringing the ability to stream an entire Windows PC from the cloud  :bullshit: on any device will allow every user to be a Windows user, and it also offers Microsoft the chance to put Windows behind a subscription service.  :bullshit:

Of course, the local version of Windows is never going to go away, but ** Microsoft clearly foresees a future where some people will prefer streaming Windows over using it on-device. ***** As most of what we do on a PC is internet-connected these days anyway, ****perhaps this idea isn't so far-fetched.
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Buzzword bullshit: "The cloud", "Cloud gaming", Cloud, "AI-powered services"
Utter bullshit: "Streamed from the cloud", "digital experience(s)", "consumer Cloud PC", "Power of the cloud", Xbox Cloud Gaming", "digitally roam".

I am a bit confused, is it a terminal service/remote desktop service Microsoft are hosting where they lease it out or are they trying to sell you an operating system on a subscription basis that you put on your own equipment and charge you monthly with easy access that they provide to it?

* Controlled by the parents through Microsoft.
Also what if the parents are busy working and have no time.
If I was that age that happened to me I'd be very upset, I'd go bezerk. I delete it and put my own stuff on there or hand it back if I can't.

** I expect the operating system to be independent on the device for a starter.

*** Rubbish if "power of the cloud" depends on broadband connection.

**** Doesn't sound far fetch but stupid to me. Trying to setup a subscription terminal services/remote desktop in their house and charge them a subscription fee and call it all sorts of fancy names for a bit of easy access to it.


--- Quote ---Zac Bowden: As most of what we do on a PC is internet-connected these days anyway
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PATHETIC and UTTER BULLSHIT excuse does not justify/excuse the disadvantages of a subscription based to something that is not yours to use when you no longer pay the subscription fee.

Joke: Many already have "a digital experience" and "digitally roam" around with their stuff and have access to "cloud"/hosting in one form or another.

I find the article very patronizing and insulting and I wonder if Zac Bowden is being paid by Microsoft to promote this article nonsense with all those bullshit buzzwords and fancy sounding terms he can think of.

What do you think?
DimitriP:
It could be:
-not as many people using their windows PC with the ir Microsoft account,
- have enough office 365 subscriptions but "all of them" is better
- the microsoft store and installing apps though "the store" not quite the success they dremed up would be
-windows S not the magic bullet they expected,
 too much software out there is still "independent" to be installed without MS awareness, blessing, permission or subscription.

...and they came up with a solution to all that :)

steve30:
It is indeed a remote desktop solution. The Windows OS will be installed in a VM on a server somewhere and you will access it by remote desktop (or via a web client). You will still need to be running an underlying OS like Linux/Windows/MacOS which can then run the RDP client. This is pretty pointless for most of us here, but may have some use cases where you want something running on a particular machine, and wish to access that same machine from any device.
SiliconWizard:
But you will own nothing and you will be happy! What's not to like.
Jeroen3:
I think they're going to make their own thin client solution for home users.

Now many large companies already use such a system, eg Citrix, where a very cheap pc is attached to a monitor provides access to a server instance.
The performance of the slice of server you get is customizable. Great solution for companies with many workstations.

I can understand why they do that. You can provide customers with a very cheap buy-in, eg; 200$, and then a recurring yearly fee for use of the slice of server. Nice business model!
Very unusable for anyone that physically want to attach stuff to their pc or run games and stuff due to latency. Also completely unusable if you don't have decent internet speeds (including upload!).
But for a lot of digitally challanged people this is a great solution.

This will be a thing in the future. Get ready for it.
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