Is this the future of Windows? - eviltoast

Recently Microsoft released the link 365 which is basically a thin client for Azure. You can’t run anything locally nor is there any local files. It literally just connects you to a desktop elsewhere.

Do you think this is what Windows 12 might look like? I feel like this idea is not practical for average consumers. Maybe they will make something that’s like Chrome OS?

  • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Everything Microsoft has been doing for years now is aligned in the direction of jamming as many subscription services down our throat as they can manage, whether we want them or not. They are not alone in this by any stretch. Cloud based hardware definitely fits neatly into the current tech zeitgeist.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      1 month ago

      I hate the fact that TPM and other DRM is the standard now. I can’t even run third party software on it.