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Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud (www.theverge.com)

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[–] conciselyverbose 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

$350 for a thin client locked out of doing anything useful and requiring a subscription to function?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Link device is designed to be a compact, fanless, and easy-to-use cloud PC for your local monitors and peripherals. It’s meant to be the ideal companion to Microsoft’s Windows 365 service, which lets businesses transition employees over to virtual machines that exist in the cloud and can be streamed securely to multiple devices.

It sounds like it's part of a broader strategy to have companies outsource their IT to Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but it's priced the same as a cheap laptop and/or desktop, which of course doesn't then require you to pay monthly to actually use the stupid thing.

It feels like another 'Microsoft asked Microsoft what Microsoft management would buy, and came up with this' product, and less one that actually has a substantial market, especially when you're trying to sell a $350 box that costs you $x a month to actually use as a 'business solution'.

This would probably be a cool product at $0 with-a-required-contract-with-Azure, but at $350.... meh, I suspect it's a hard sale given the VDI stuff on Azure isn't cheap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

which of course doesn't then require you to pay monthly to actually use the stupid thing.

I think the idea here is that the businesses can lay off some of their in-house IT staff and pay Microsoft a lesser amount instead; the in-house IT staff does get paid monthly.