Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
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Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#2There's still large areas just 35 miles from DC that don't have high speed internet. The cloud is STILL just for people who never leave the range of high speed internet.
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#3If Stadia and xCloud really do solve the latency issues inherent in client/server computing - and show that it's economical - one could almost imagine Microsoft launching a consumer version of this with a "terminal" that was little more than a screen, keyboard and network connection... Like Sun Microsystems reborn.
The whole concept would, of course, enrage certain sections of the populace including most of HN's readership, but I can see it happening.
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#4There's still large areas just 35 miles from DC that don't have high speed internet. The cloud is STILL just for people who never leave the range of high speed internet.
uh, where? The middle of the Chesapeake bay?
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#5There's still large areas just 35 miles from DC that don't have high speed internet. The cloud is STILL just for people who never leave the range of high speed internet.
> people who never leave the range of high speed internet
Which is a vast majority of the US population. I agree that it is important to get broadband access for everyone, but asking companies to hold back services and features until that happens makes zero sense.
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#6There's still large areas just 35 miles from DC that don't have high speed internet. The cloud is STILL just for people who never leave the range of high speed internet.
I live within 15 miles of the main Microsoft campus in Redmond and only have access to shitty DSL. Microsoft has always taken the bet that everyone in the future will have access to high speed internet, but without ever raising a finger to make sure that future actually happens.
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#7I have a friend who works at a big Corporation (100k employees) where everyone has a thin dumb client and windows desktop running on a server. It works great, except video stutters if not small sized. Way of the future? Its an efficient way to pool resources, and prevents people physically stealing data.
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#8I have a friend who works at a big Corporation (100k employees) where everyone has a thin dumb client and windows desktop running on a server. It works great, except video stutters if not small sized. Way of the future? Its an efficient way to pool resources, and prevents people physically stealing data.
> Way of the future?
Why not? Everything old becomes new again at some point.
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#9There's still large areas just 35 miles from DC that don't have high speed internet. The cloud is STILL just for people who never leave the range of high speed internet.
For what it's worth I used to use remote desktop from across the world on dialup, and it was certainly usable.
Re: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
#10If Stadia and xCloud really do solve the latency issues inherent in client/server computing - and show that it's economical - one could almost imagine Microsoft launching a consumer version of this with a "terminal" that was little more than a screen, keyboard and network connection... Like Sun Microsystems reborn. The whole concept would, of course, enrage certain sections of the populace including most of HN's read…
You know, I’d pay for that service. For example like $4.99/month if they give me say 200 hours per month. (I haven’t done the math or the research if that is economically sane).
Some idea.