News Microsoft Announces Windows 365 Cloud OS

[Admin]

Microsoft today announced the introduction of a new vehicle of delivery for your OS - Windows 365 - powered by the Cloud.

Microsoft Announces Windows 365 Cloud OS : Read more

 

[dehjomz]

But can you game (e.g., steam AAA games) on Windows 365, and if so, at what frame rate and latency?

 

[caseym54]

And what do they mean when they say you can scale up processing power? I have some FPGA low-level sim jobs where I'd be very interested in that.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Sounds good until you can't do any work because Comcast died or you can't get a cell signal....Actually that sounds great!

 

[USAFRet]

But can you game (e.g., steam AAA games) on Windows 365, and if so, at what frame rate and latency?

You do realize that people do things other than games with a PC, right?

 

[korekan]

Businesses also won't have to configure hardware devices per user anymore.

Marketing words always over the top. When you are in enterprise, you will face new challanges such as vulnerabilities assessment, audit, connectivity, security audit, monitoring integration, ticketing and so on. Many services promises but at the end they are very limited in terms of integration

 

[USAFRet]

And before long (like tomorrow), the internets are going to go full idiot, and state categorically that this will be the ONLY option for a Windows OS.

 

[punkncat]

The concern I have with having "everything in the cloud" is the correlation to ISP having low data caps and high overage charges.

 

[USAFRet]

The concern I have with having "everything in the cloud" is the correlation to ISP having low data caps and high overage charges.

If you have such a connection plan, a cloud OS is not for you.

 

[USAFRet]

Such an OS config would almost certainly serve my wifes usage just fine.

Not that I'd actually do that, but many many many people out there would not notice the difference.

 

[hushnecampus]

I’m sorry, but “Cloud OS”? It’s just a VM For goodness’ sake!

 

[mikeebb]

I’m sorry, but “Cloud OS”? It’s just a VM For goodness’ sake!

It's a VM like IBM's old VM/CMS: you use the VM just like a stand-alone computer, with what looks like your own operating system (you can boot non-IBM operating systems in a VM as long as they can work with the emulated hardware), with your personal console on a terminal. So if done correctly the PC specs (for use as a terminal) are fairly minimal.

Just had another thought: isn't this sort of like what Citrix was providing for many years? Ah yes, and didn't Citrix recently go out of business? "Thin clients" ftw. Hmmmm?

 

[DSzymborski]

Why are people reacting to this as if it's a consumer product? An office with 75 workers isn't fighting with Comcast about data caps or calling the 800 number for tier 1 customer support reading off a script.

 

[Briny]

And what do they mean when they say you can scale up processing power? I have some FPGA low-level sim jobs where I'd be very interested in that.

From the Microsoft 'blog post: "Cloud PCs can be configured with a single CPU, 2GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage at the low-end, all the way up to eight CPUs, 32GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. Microsoft is offering 12 different configurations for both Windows 365 Business and Enterprise, and businesses will be able to scale processing power so there will be lots of options to choose from."

I'm similarly intrigued although even just a 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM instance would scratch the itch here of needing Windows around for certain use cases and being able to restore within minutes would be very reassuring. It's gotten to the point where the ransomware actors are delaying their encryption cycle to get inside your recovery point objective. This would mitigate that.