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Re:Microsoft enables booting PCs directly into cloud PCs by 2snakes on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:49AM (#36057274)
Is there an actual technical reason for doing this besides the subscription model success? Better analytics?
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Re:Microsoft enables booting PCs directly into cloud PCs by glmdev on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:25AM (#36057697)
In _theory_ using a thin-client and booting into a cloud machine means you can "upgrade" your machine in a couple years w/o having to replace the thin-client.

Could be easier for grandma, could reduce e-waste, will definitely be used to pigeon-hole us into an endless hell of subscription software.

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Re:Microsoft enables booting PCs directly into cloud PCs by sebazzz on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:51PM (#36061697)
In practice it means your compute time is being micro-time sliced to the maximum so it will probably perform incredibly bad.
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