Re: Not great pricing, but they'll get the Office people.
"The proposition seems to be that you need to rent what is effectively a remote PC, probably with a lower specification than the PC (or, indeed, tablet) you already have in order to, er, achieve what, precisely?"
The idea is that businesses who currently allow their users to use their personal machines to work from home as long as they remote in to company-controlled boxes on which all the work is done could move those remote boxes into the cloud and save the annoyances of maintaining a room of desktops somewhere which someone has to maintain, reboot, etc. Which sort of works, but most of the places I know either have already issued their staff corporate laptops to use from home, aren't going to keep the workers at home anyway, or don't know (or care, but I hope it's know) about the security risks and allow their workers to do work from personal machines without a remote machine. Meanwhile, any company who is going to buy things for their workers to use as thin clients isn't going to need these; a cheap laptop costs about as much as the base level for this cloud PC for fifteen months and comes with double the RAM. So it's a solution for a use case that only a tiny group of people have and might not be great for that either.
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