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MrHalfAsleep
Community elder
3 months ago

Coming soon - Microsoft 'dumb terminal'!

Microsoft's First Desktop PC Will Run Windows 11 From the Cloud, Cost $349 and Won't Run Apps

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    Nothing new then.  X Windows has been around a long time  😉

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person

    Another ‘last’ not ‘first’ for Microsoft.

  • In my opinion this is terrible. I'm not a fan of this.

    Companies are desperate to host computing resources and rent them out to customers. This is so they can have more CPUs and GPUs in-house to run their AI systems, which is terrible because AI has an agenda and it is destroying humanity.

    Google tried the same thing with their cloud gaming service.

    Amazon tried the same thing with their cloud gaming service.

    Microsoft already tried the same thing with their Xbox PC cloud gaming service.

     

    The goal of all large corporations is now to hoarde all real GPUs and CPUs and leave the people with powerless "terminals" to remotely access processors. A bit like old time-share systems. We are going backwards. Even apple is trying to do the same thing by moving people to cheap RISC CPUs which are great at a few tasks like enoding video but cant to much else on them, so they price them by how fast they can encode video, so they can create more unfair trade and inflation and pump more money into AI nonsense.

    It's basically a race of the corporations to acquire the most in-house CPUs and GPUs while leaving the general public with nothing.