Windows 365 for consumers is imminent? So the rumor mill reckons
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.
youre right, the hardware will never go away… but there are many in the cloud-only corporate space where hardware is almost irrelevant as every single piece of software, including windows, is provisioned from the net. thats today. whats tomorrow going to look like for retail?
Meh. “The Death of the Desktop PC” has been predicted for decades, every time something new comes out.
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.
Sure, death of the Windows desktop, maybe.
I doubt this will happen anytime soon. Cloud costs are simply too high.
You also may need to factor in network costs which people don’t even think about as much today.