Windows 365 for consumers is imminent? So the rumor mill reckons
Meh. “The Death of the Desktop PC” has been predicted for decades, every time something new comes out.
Imo the difference this time is that it’s Microsoft itself that’s doing it first.
I’m a Linux user, but I like having control over my own hardware, and I don’t want my next PC to be an underpowered thin client designed only to work with a commercial cloud OS. I hope this doesn’t take off any time soon.
This will materialize in the same way that Cloud gaming has taken the market by storm. It’s nice when you want/need to game on a phone, but the experience doesn’t hold up to native and the laws of physics are immutable, you can’t defeat the latency of running your PC in a data center miles from your house. Even running Office apps will be a notably degraded experience.
Microsoft is crazy, but they’ve not done anything to kill the golden Windows goose in all this time, I can’t see them thinking this would fly when they know the costs and downsides from doing xCloud.
It’ll probably only appeal to that limited, low-end Chromebook market.
It’s kinda built for that market entirely, remember Microsoft’s biggest market is licensing. A hundred cheap computers is still 10k in licensing costs. One big bad gaming rig is only a single license.
Honestly I’ve been in the beta channel for 11 for awhile now. I’m currently looking into switching back to Linux. I reinstalled Windows for my Daughter to play Minecraft with her friends but meh.
Yuck, no thanks i’ll stick to linux on my hardware!
