• @[email protected]
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    334 minutes ago

    Why is it so expensive? You can buy a fully functioning laptop with a local windows install for way less.

    Even the new mac mini is $599 and that’s a full on computer with really good performance.

  • @Treczoks
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    106 hours ago

    And if you thought Microsoft could not get worse…

  • Diplomjodler
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    699 hours ago

    Words can’t express how much I don’t want this.

    • @[email protected]
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      148 hours ago

      The article mentions this is aimed at enterprises who are already probably doing something like this with vmware ESXi

      • @Ptsf
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        33 hours ago

        Doubt it’ll ever catch on with anything except maybe the largest of orgs. You can just procure office task ready machines so cheaply these days, and Windows 365 is like $45/user/month. Far more than what we pay for windows licensing, user Cals, and office licensing all combined.

      • @Benjaben
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        45 hours ago

        Yep for managing “thin clients” I’d been expecting something like this someday.

  • @Leeks
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    197 hours ago

    It’s a thin client…

      • Phoenixz
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        64 hours ago

        It’s new and revolutionary in that it’s worthless because you can only run Microsoft shit on this and makes you lock yourself 100% in with a vendor notorious for not giving a single shit about customers

  • @halendos
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    178 hours ago

    Nice, more e-waste… Also, if it’s just streaming from the cloud, how is it so expensive? Its on the same range as a steam deck.

    • @Ptsf
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      12 hours ago

      😎 profit, synergy, enterprise, buzzword.

  • @[email protected]
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    16 hours ago

    Oh…so they just want to take all control away from the user? I won’t be buying that, I’m sure it eats up a fuck ton of bandwidth too

  • @eddanja
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    18 hours ago

    Something, something, Surface Duo