Windows-as-an-app is coming
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Windows-as-an-app is coming
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Re: Windows-as-an-app is coming
#2Everything going to "the Cloud" is just a backslide into the mainframe era, but with shinier graphics. I feel like the age of micros has ended, killed off by clueless users with flashy phones.
Re: Windows-as-an-app is coming
#3> Windows-as-an-App Is Coming
To do what ? Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows.
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#4> Windows-as-an-App Is Coming To do what ? Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows.
Windows on bare metal to run Edge to run Windows-as-an-app
Sounds simple to me /s
Think of all of the telemetry data possible this way!
Re: Windows-as-an-app is coming
#5Everything going to "the Cloud" is just a backslide into the mainframe era, but with shinier graphics. I feel like the age of micros has ended, killed off by clueless users with flashy phones.
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#6> Windows-as-an-App Is Coming To do what ? Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows.
> To do what ?
Is it not obvious? It's the same purpose as XCode Cloud and Ubuntu Pro and Office 365; force users to pay recurring fees for basic functionality. This is what service-ification of completely normal software looks like, our penance for not caring enough as consumers.
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#7> Windows-as-an-App Is Coming To do what ? Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows.
>Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows.
What do you mean?
Re: Windows-as-an-app is coming
#8This still requires a subscription to, say, Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows Cloud PC, and those prices still aren't terribly appetizing.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/all-pricing
(Sidebar: I actually signed up for a trial and somehow Microsoft decided to terminate it not even a day into the trial with zero warning, so I immediately gave up and am annoyed I spent half a day loading software and already starting to use the damn thing.)
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#9The idea of a super thin client in the form of a light laptop with amazing battery life connected to something like this seemed appealing a few years ago.
With everything Apple has delivered with their ARM processors though it seems like you can have your cake and eat it too with compute power, battery life, and a very nice laptop all at once.
Re: Windows-as-an-app is coming
#10> Windows-as-an-App Is Coming To do what ? Running on bare hardware is a challenge for Windows.
I was just thinking about this the other day. If I had to build a new OS built on top of a web interface that controlled an operating system, installed programs, opened files with set programs, shared between programs, and made it all cloud based, what would it look like? How could I do that?
The front would have a set number of UI concepts, theme, interface commands and controls. The back would have data that would appear in the form of drop downs, item list, buttons, images, colors, etc (i think that covers everything).
And then a special renderer would be paired with the interface. This renderer would depict (a VNC?) things like the layout of a webpage (... by firefox?), the structure of a cad drawing, the photoshopping of a 1 GB image, the 10,000 messages in your inbox, all based on the data obtained from the web.
I am not too familiar with GPU stuff so I don't know how much the renderer can partially leverage a local GPU versus a cloud GPU.