News Windows 365 Boot Lets You Boot Directly Into the Cloud

[Admin]

Microsoft has unveiled early access to the Windows 365 program, which lets users to boot directly into an Azure-based cloud PC interface.

Windows 365 Boot Lets You Boot Directly Into the Cloud : Read more

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

This is interesting, might be something that may or may not be great depending on their downtime once it’s released.

Though it would be nice to say “sorry can’t work, my cloud desktop is inaccessible” and just hang out.

 

[RichardtST]

Is 80's technology making a comeback?

 

[Soaptrail]

This is interesting, might be something that may or may not be great depending on their downtime once it’s released.

Though it would be nice to say “sorry can’t work, my cloud desktop is inaccessible” and just hang out.

I already have to use VPN 100% of the time I work and my data transfers max out at 100KB/s. I can only imagine using this on the VPN!

 

[mjonis]

Is it really "booting" directly into the cloud, when it sounds like you'll still need a device (ie: Desktop/laptop PC) to boot up and when you "login", then it redirects you to a VDI session "in the cloud"? If not, I can't imagine how slow it would be to actually bootstrap the Windows OS over your internet connection (again, VDI is NOT the same thing, IMO). Sounds more like a "thin client" solution that's been around for many years (Citrix has had it for quite some time).

 

[hannibal]

In work machines... Why not!