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MS moving to a cloud based OS soon,"Windows Cloud"!

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G73S

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"Microsoft is working on an operating system based in the cloud – apparently called “Windows Cloud.” The client software would be available to users as a free download, and it might resemble earlier Windows Starter editions. More advanced features would then be available only when a subscription is purchased, and it would require an active Internet connection.In offline mode, the OS would only include basic functionality." For many an OS based on the cloud partly could be acceptable but an OS based fully on the cloud isn't. So may be we might have to migrate to Ubuntu or some other Linux distro.
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Like Windows 8 and its crappy Microsoft account wasn't enough! 😵🙄

http://bgr.com/2014/04/21/windows-9-features-start-menu/
 
Not sure how that would even work... you have the bare minimum files on your computer, and, if it needs a new dll or something, it would get it from the cloud ?
Ugh.

All aboard the fail boat if that happens.
 
G73S said:
Like Windows 8 and its crappy Microsoft account wasn't enough! 😵🙄

http://bgr.com/2014/04/21/windows-9-features-start-menu/
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Nothing to do with Win8 ,infact looks like they are taking a leaf out of Linux ie Ubuntu Cloud http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud .

You can't really blame them since Microsoft wants to cover all the gaps in the market.

We already have cloud based anti-virus programs so was expected sooner or later.
I don't see the big deal you are not forced to use it.
 
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I am surprised cloud based computing has stuck around this long. I guess MS doesn't like Chromebook edging in on it's territory.
 
Good. I'd upgrade day 1 and I wouldn't have to buy OEM copies everytime MS craps out another version of Windows. $100 a year for a licence or 2 would be excellent for an OS that is always up to date. You've already been renting a licence from MS anyway.
 
Chiefcrowe said:
The inevitable arrival of subscription-based Windows

http://arstechnica.com/information-...vitable-arrival-of-subscription-based-windows
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To this, add a couple of levels of unlocks: one tier for regular Windows desktop features (offering parity with the feature set of Windows 8.1 today), and a second, higher tier for Windows corporate features (offering parity with Windows 8.1 Pro). These could be both persistent unlocks or periodic subscriptions. Microsoft has already had persistent operating system unlocks since Windows Vista's Anytime Upgrade feature, so none of this would be hugely different from what's gone before.
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I've suggested in the CPU forum that Intel is going to go this way with CPUs too. Ship motherboards with fully-enabled consumer-platform CPUs, that are soldered on, and then you pay to unlock the features that you need.
 
This sounds more like Microsoft reacting to Chromebooks taking a huge chunk of the market in such a short time than anything.
 
lagokc said:
This sounds more like Microsoft reacting to Chromebooks taking a huge chunk of the market in such a short time than anything.
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How is a cloud-based or free plus goodies Windows going to do that?

Unless they offer a dirt cheap/free version of Pro, so your students can all be locked down on your domain, Chromebooks are much more a threat to Win RT convertibles, and iPads, than anything else, and none of these articles make any mention of non-Windows Windows, like RT.
 
So they saw iOS and iPads, overreacted, and we got Windows 8.
Now they see ChromeOS and the ChromeBooks, overreact and we get CloudWindows?
 
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