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what do you mean by this
do u think a cloud pc (with constant server costs) shouldnt be a monthly fee?
I think this is likely the "new only Windows option" in the not so distant future. I think it shouldn't exist.
And what will be the host from which you will run Cloud PC? Linux, macOS?
What sick moronic idiot would want a cloud pc that's accessible via... a pc
Their primary use is enterprise not private consumers. Think of virtualized OS accessible over internet that you can manage/protect and provide for example to some random consultant. Or just provide more powerful PC on low end HW.
It's costly though and not sure it ever gained traction because there always were alternatives like Citrix Desktops.
Maybe there's a use case, but I'm anti-cloud and always will be. I struggle to think of a situation I couldn't do better with in-house (or even air gapped) VMs of my own.
Anyone who watches 365 uptime knows that Microsoft's cloud is a fragile laughing stock. They use a Twitter account because their own status portal is so laughably trash and unreliable. If you don't believe me I don't blame you. Here it is.
The day I trust any cloud platform (Especially Microsoft) is the day I promise to jump off a cliff.
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I would say windows IoT would be the most likely to be prepackaged with new systems, since it'll likely be a rolling changeover.
I'd expect that within 5 years that pretty much all home and business PCs running windows will be thin clients
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_
Can't imagine it being the case, thin clients have existed for a very long time and Cloud PC is nothing revolutionary just an additional offering from Microsoft.
Not to mention private consumers will not pay subscription for OS that in long run is a lot more expensive and worse HW that they probably already have.
I have a confident guess about what Microsoft runs theirs on.. it ain't Windows.