An unbearable itch to migrate your OS to the cloud? You might have a case of Windows VD Microsoft has released Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) while reminding users that Windows 7 is inching ever closer to the end of support. Unless, that is, they sign up to run their Windows 7 desktops in Microsoft's cloudy data centres for Extended Security Updates (ESU) until January 2023. WVD hit preview in March this year, …
It's going to be a bit of a minefield controlling the rate at which large corporates ditch then Intel desktop/laptop in favour of an ARM-based virtualised alternative while simultaneously keeping Intel in business to supply the server chips until Microsoft works out how to ditch x86/x64 altogether. The plebs will have to sit it out.
.... with Heavenly Engagements.:-)
However, Manchester added the company is pondering how to bring the technology to Microsoft's on-premises cloud, Azure Stack, and told us the Windows giant is "actively in discussion with customers regarding the viability of that solution".
Care to dare share what Azure Stack Programmers are actively in discussion with customers about with particular and peculiar regard to the viability of improving proven clouded solutions ..... successful virtually enterprising operations?
We can learn of developments and mentor to monitors anywhere and everywhere if information and intelligence is escaped and registered here in these simple learned threads, for there is always someone who thinks they knows what is next and best, or what else can be done to make matters better, or worse if a plan fails dramatically and catastrophically.
Fuck that. Microsoft, you can't even keep language settings correctly for your failed browser, you think I'm going to be stupid enough to entrust my entire desktop to your effing cloud ?
Do you remember what PC used to mean ? Personal Computer. Emphasis on Personal.
ODFO.
Do you remember what PC used to mean ? Personal Computer. Emphasis on Personal.
That's only because at the time it wasn't possible for it to be anything else. At least not for an average home or office user. You can rest assured that if there was some cloud equivalent in Windows 3.1 days Microsoft would have jumped on that chance.
Providing the OS for someone's system is one game. Being the keeper of their data is a bigger one. One could argue that Microsoft "won" in terms of getting an OS used by so many. The jury is still out on who will win in terms of the next game, however. They're all trying though - all the big players, and even some smaller ones.
" You can rest assured that if there was some cloud equivalent in Windows 3.1 days Microsoft would have jumped on that chance."
There was - its called the unix X window system. You could - and still can - run a desktop from a machine anywhere in the world along with remote command line acccess and rpc. But Wijndows back then was little more than a toy and not even close to being up to the task.
But there wasn't a system that allowed you to not hate everything while doing that. If using a CLI, it was just fine. When doing anything at all intensive in a GUI, there would be lots of lags as data got moved around. So computers were made self-contained. With increasing network speeds, it will be possible for people to do more work on a remotely-located device, already popularized by the Chromebook and cloud services from Google, Microsoft, and Adobe. We will have to see how long it takes for users to realize that their remote client isn't really saving much power for them and that it's sometimes really inconvenient to have all processing dependent on something located a few easily-cut network lines away from you.
So Windows 8s true crime was being too shit, too soon.
This was maybe the plan all along, have a crap ui and charge users who need to do something useful.
Wonder if you need to also pay for the host desktop in order to access your virtual desktop?
If so congrats, MS on working out how to get paid twice per seat (thrice, if you include Office).
My sympathy is for the small business, that's already working flat out hand-to-mouth with rates and taxes, and really doesn't have the time, money or experience to seek out alternatives. They are going to be well and truly shafted.
... yes, more so than they already are.
Or tested 500 apps a thousand times? I'm having a hard time buying that number from a OS vendor who frequently doesn't appear to even test their own patches thoroughly.
Saw an outrageous claim from my company about the effectiveness of a QA function and we found the following haiku on a board:
A number so large
Almost certainly bullshit
But soon we will know
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