Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers. In an internal “state of the business” Microsoft presentation from June 2022, Microsoft discuses building on “Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device.”
The presentation has been revealed as part of the ongoing FTC v. Microsoft hearing, as it includes Microsoft’s overall gaming strategy and how that relates to other parts of the company’s businesses. Moving “Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud” is identified as a long-term opportunity in Microsoft’s “Modern Life” consumer space, including using “the power of the cloud and client to enable improved AI-powered services and full roaming of people’s digital experience.”
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Wtf does this mean?
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synergize strategies across multiple avenues of revenue
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This is why I could never be a corporate executive. I completely lack the ability to say shit like that with a straight face.
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Ya this is why I've been passed over for CEO of giant corporations
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chatGPT
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Literally got my current job by getting chatGPT to write my application. The recruiters said it was amazing.
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But that perspective is the exact reason why you should be one.
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Wally is the
Also,
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500DC if someone makes an r-slur business marsey
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Complete with the head smashed in
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Give me 5-14 business days
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providing full-service solutions in an increasingly complex industry
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Leveraging proactive solutions to tomorrow's problems, today.
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In the fast-paced, ever-evolving tech landscape, Microsoft stands as a paradigm-shifting disruptor. It's a behemoth at the cutting edge, continuously leveraging its robust ecosystem to synergize with the zeitgeist of innovation. Through its holistic approach, it pivots dynamically to reimagine the value propositions across diverse verticals.
Frick I hate The Verge.
They'll moralize about the most trivial shit related to video game characters and Twitter spats but then they open their mouths as wide as possible to fellate corporations that do some of the stupidest, non-consumer-friendly bullshit (as obviously sponsored posts).
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Shutting down your house when you use no-no words.
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N-WORD DETECTED. WE HAVE NOTIFIED YOUR EMPLOYER AND CANCELED YOUR PENDING UBER EATS DELIVERY
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DONT FORGET TO DISABLE HIS INSULIN+ SUBSCRIPTION!!!
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Honestly, dying from society shutting you off for saying poison idea and no no words is very punk rock and fetch.
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Imagine not being such an old school cyberpunk that you've been zeroed since the 1990s and the government forgot you existed.
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Making C:\ redirect to OneDrive so they get every last drop of data.
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Pretty much this
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it's not even a bad idea for a product offering because basically no one wants to maintain hard drive backups
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Daily reminder that you can totally disable OneDrive in group policy. It breaks a bunch of stuff but you're probably not using 95% of it anyway.
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Desktop is now onedrive/desktop on some installs
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How do we make our boot times from 10 seconds to 10 hours?
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I was so happy to learn that pressing F12 brings up the classic Save dialog box in Office. No, I don't want to default to saving my shit to Onedrive. I shouldn't have to hit More Locations > On This Computer > Browse to save something to the desktop.
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They want the OS accessible from any device. IoT style.
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i think it means that you can log on to the same session no matter what physical pc
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I do not want this at all, ever
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I am so sick of this obsession with cloud shit. It's bad enough that SaS became a thing, but I am not doing a fricking cloud os.
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You can already do this by signing into your MSFT account from the web browser.
By making it a "cloud OS," they're trying to break into the IoT sector. Any shitty hardware will magically run windows from which they gather further data. Walled garden strategy, after the fact.
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We can already do this privately with a vpn and ssh/vnc/rdp though
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They're setting the stage for a future where everyone gets a trash thin-client that only connects to MS servers; they'll frame it as a "climate-friendly" solution and you'll be a BIPOC-hating bigot if you dare to think about getting a real computer.
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The only saving grace is that even the "thin" IoT client is going to be so comically bloated you'll be able to run a FOSS OS
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It will definitely come with a locked bootloader, gotta protect
those users from
themselvescia-level attacks.And even if you somehow find an exploit and get it to run unsigned code, it'll definitely not be able to run a modern web browser. Even recent mid-range phones struggle with them.
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I'm so fricking angry about this. Firefox is lagging on a phone that's not even 5 years old yet. It feels like frickers gobble up tens of millions a year to do nothing but make things worse.
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Some sweaty nerd will figure it out eventually
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We really need an alternate internet format for wackos and I don't mean that gemini shit that can barely do anything I mean something fun.
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of course you can. But that way isn't microsoft spyware.
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Own nothing be happy
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Sounds like they’re going all in on OneDrive becoming just a form of AD roaming profile?
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We store all your content so you can access it anywhere
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modern prophet
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not really prophecy, the xbox one (picrel) was going to be always-online
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plus I mean people had this shit called since at least the 80s
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this greentext single-handedly destroyed MS plans to make xbox one always online
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They also destroyed their plan for cooperation with Mountain Dew.
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This was IBM's business model in the 1950s-1980s and when it broke down Microsoft fricked them in the butt and stole their market. Sometimes I worry I'm the only person left who had parents to explain this stuff.
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qrd, cloud
didnt 
exist then
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Oh come now, they had proprietary networks running over phone lines.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal
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Yeah their alternative to TCP/ip was c*nty
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Why would any consumer want that
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I want to be watched. It makes me feel needed
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Way ahead of you, brother
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Because your other choice is Apple for $4k or be a terrorist who uses Linux.
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I never even considered either so far, but if microsoft actually does this I probably will switch tbh.
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Realistically, if that happened, I'd start browsing on a potato for Linux if I had to. Or hope Proton keeps at it.
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Proton unironically got me to buy games again. So nice to just have things work, plus shader sharing makes it pretty great.
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what's proton
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Not much how about you
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Lets u play windows game on linux
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It's steams implementation of wine, a windows software compatibility layer.
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Oh boy, so only five more reasons for FNV to crash
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Just keep a cracked Windows 7/10 ISO burned to a CD.
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This shit will finally actually make me use Linux (
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If you only knew how many times in the last 25 years I decided I was finally sick of Windows and then was reminded that GNU++Linux desktop distros are all made by antisocial sickos who want to hurt people but don't have the guts to become serial killers.
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I feel the same way once I got a job using windows.
How do people use a system without
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Like the people in Plato's Cave, this is all they've ever known. They don't know how good it can get.
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fr, windows is insane. i got my work pc with onedrive enabled, and for some reason all my folders are duplicated. i download a file, open the "Download" folder and it's empty. then i go to C:/Users/name/Downloads and it's a completely different folder that actually has my file.
i had multiple times starting up my pc and seeing no task bar. have to restart with the physical button.
so many interactions are slow as shit. the hardware is not bad and the applications themselves run great, but for some reason opening the start menu takes 3 seconds. opening the calculator instantly pops up a white window, but it takes 10 seconds for the buttons to appear. menu navigation is completely fricked up, sometimes you press the back button and it brings you somewhere else that you expected
literally what the frick, i talk to other people and they tell me that's normal.
my home linux pc does not have cool animations but it also just works
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Yeah, with a conventional desktop platform I expect things to break so I have a better time using a platform that lets me debug things.
Something that is way more stable would be iOS/iPadOS, Android and Chromebooks and most normies would do wayyy better with them.
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By not being obese
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If something is broken how do you know what’s broken?
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You google the error, edit the registry, frick around with services.msc for some reason, and finally reset your windows installation to defaults.
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You don't, because windows doesn't just spontaneously break like Linux does. Literally just don't frick with it for no reason and it's fine. Only time I crashed is when I tried using a different PC's floppy drive as a page file over shit connection like a decade ago
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I’ve had plenty of weird bugs on Linux but at least I could debug them. I have Windows guys just laugh and tell me to re-install entirely at the simplest of bugs.
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These people wouldn't know how to fix shit anyway.
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Dmesg | grep eat my butt
.././bussy.sh
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Nothing would make me use Linux
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The GLA will be victorious!
Ok I tried to look up generals terrorist on gif and this is what came up.
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You know the GLA used Linux to fire those SCUD missiles
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I always knew we couldn't trust
@dramasexual
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Idk what's happening here but i like it
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Haha jokes on you.
Apple has even worse telemetry and 'cloud integration' than Windows. If you want to see how Windows will look like in 5 years from now, get Apple.
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I choose terrorism
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BIPOCcattle do as corporate handler says and ask no questions
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I heard this man has a solution
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Terry’s solution was to get hit by a train. Here is a man who has a real solution:
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Was getting fired part of his plan?
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They expect one of us in the wreckage , brother
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He ate some shit he found in his sock and was temporarily transported to the nexus where he experienced some r-slurred combination of communism and Linux being usable as a desktop os.
Even today he eats his own toe fungus hoping it contains enough trilitium to return to the nexus.
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consumers are r-slurs and deserve everything that is coming to them
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