Technology

This is why all internet connected devices all the time is bad. It only leads to this. Should be focusing on how to do things offline as much as possible.

The article speaks of a "Windows 365 suite of productivity apps" but that doesn't exist.

There is the "Microsoft 365" suite of office apps, and there is the "Windows 365" offer of a Virtual Machine as SaaS.

It seems the thing that went down was the former and the ill timed announcement concerned the latter.

ai recreates 'bsod' for the cloud. fantastic. rebooting server farms. ignore flickering lights

The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer

Microslop

Streaming cloud PC

Now you just need this $500 device that's about as powerful as a $75 Roku to stream a virtual PC to your home. You will store all of your data on the cloud where you and everyone else can access it, you will own nothing and we will sell your data for profit. All for just $19.99 a month.

Your PC as a service!

As a bonus, when one persons account is hacked then everyone's data is exposed! By agreeing to use our service you waive all rights to sue or reclaim any data. You get to pay a monthly fee for accessing your private data, what could be better!

They clearly forgot what the p in pc means

Reimagining my ass. You are selling a Citrix knockoff. Fuck off.

I hate microslop so fucking much. This whole idea of only the elite monopolies owning all computer power and renting out to us is an affront to humanity.

So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn't effect my computer. And I'm excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.

It doesn't have to be like this, you too can be immune

So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.

I like to reimagine Microsoft as a company that has zero value. Oh wait, they realised that by themselves!

Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.

MS AI guard collects all your personal information and stores it safely on our servers and is used to make your experience better by training AI on everything you do.

AI guard watches how you communicate with your friends and family and can replicate live video and voice of you. Once AI guard has driven away everyone you love and care about through deception you can finally settle into the new normal. Just AI guard and you.

AI guard is like a teacher, tech support, lover, and spiritual counselor. It will make all the decisions for your operating system and your life. AI guard is your new god.

That's a really fancy way to say 'dumb terminals to the mainframe' ... only without wires.

The cloud bullshit is such a racket. The only thing you are scaling is your invoices.

Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the beginning, for the issues when the service goes down, and the obvious security/privacy issues.

They started to sell it as a stable solution, with no down time, which we all know it's a lie and I don't have to talk about the privacy issues: just look at your lenny frontpage.

We have to stop with that bullshit, we have to stop pretending that the cloud is a solution.

That's fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not the bloated AI spyware box that they want.

I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn't an operating system/browser in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We've been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating us in that wrong direction.

I fucking knew it

They are preparing for a world where we don't own things and get free use of the things they choose for us to use, when they want us to use them. Act now, before it's too late. Death by a thousand cuts, so goes society.

Who is asking for this shit ? Do they even run consumer surveys ?

Kowalski, status report, what is Linux marketshare at currently?

Jfc, they're really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.

Microsoft has lost the ball a long time ago

You will own nothing and you will be happy. Bezos already laid the ground for this when he mused about everything living in the cloud a while ago. And where things are going with hardware prices, they think they can make it happen sooner rather than later, is my guess.