Cloud Based OS

[TheWaffle]

A co-worker recently reminded me that Windows 12 will likely be cloud based like Chrome OS.
https://www.techradar.com/news/could-windows-12-become-microsofts-first-cloud-based-operating-system
Maybe this will be the end of Windows Update wasting our time and interrupting things?

I wonder what it will mean for those of us that still use our computers offline? I have a couple siblings still in school and their Chromebooks are pretty useless without internet.

[Geek-9pm]

I do not know. The idea of a truly global internet is still in the future.

Here is one idea:
https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2022/path-to-2025/

Another:
https://www.internetsociety.org/news/press-releases/2017/digital-future-fragile-mix-promise-uncertainty-says-global-internet-report/

Will it be? 

[glathem40]

IMHO- Even though technology is constantly changing, When new software, or operating designs render existing hardware obsolete, it is usually initially backward compatible to give the hardware market a chance to catch up.
Follow the money - Advertising revenue propels the internet. Market forces would not allow advertisers to suddenly be cut off from the lucrative student demographic.

[TheWaffle]

Honestly I am sick of all the updates - on my Windows 11 computer (at my corporate job) the other day Windows Explorer was crashing. Every couple hours it would just quit. One time I went to click the start button and the button stuttered up to the top of the screen. A couple hours of updates and a restart later it was back to working fine again.   

At home I have been rockin the classic. I bought old copies of office, and I have found there is very little it can't do. I don't know if OneNote changed at all.


I may resurrect my home cloud project, and use Windows XP as my own Cloud OS (running as a vm probably under libvirt/qemu). I think the trick will be to configuring my firewall to protect XP from random script kiddies.

[Geek-9pm]

Two news things to read over.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-offer-cloud-based-version-windows-operating-system-2021-07-14/

As spotted by The Verge, an internal Microsoft document from June 2022 revealed in the hearing mentions a consumer version of Windows 365. The slide, called "Modern Life strategy and priorities," includes a bullet point labeled 'Move Windows 11 increasingly to the Cloud.'

Somebody explain this please!