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I've always wanted my computer to stop working when I have no network connection.
Sounds distinctly like a unix mainframe + dumb terminals to me. Lawks a mussey, we've fallen back through a time warp to the 1970s!
Exactly my thoughts. It means I can give microsoft even more of my personal details about what I do and like with mylife so they can target me with even more unwanted adverts when I browse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fraz
Cload based OS =NO
One would hope that there is at least one person smart enough to make the desktop sync with the cloud rather than run from it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fraz
However Microsoft have done more stupid things in the past TBH.
Honestly, I see this more as a solution for businesses than consumers, running on a local cloud in house. But I could be wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fraz
MS just lost my home OS sales if they do that, Cloud isnt that great. 1970s idd.
With the success of Windows 7, Microsoft are now due for a Windows ME style product :) Think I'll wait for Windows 9.
ChromeOS?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fraz
If this means the OS will be sitting on an MS server somewhere then I won't be getting it, nor will a lot of people in the UK I should think. Like many here my Internet is abysmal, and getting worse all the time. I used to get nearly 20Mbps, then it fell to 15, then 8, and now 6Mbpps on a good day. Also I keep getting errors about sites taking to long to respond. Neither my ISP or BT want to take responsibility, despite the problem being successfully traced to one outside of my property.
Can you imagine all the anger around the country as the OS goes down for the tenth time in an evening due to 'unforeseen' problems with the lines.
The Internet here in the UK (don't know about elsewhere) just isn't ready for the future yet. Maybe when we all have 100MBps, Fibre Optic links and it only costs £10 a month, then it'll be ready.
I shan't hold my breath.
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So from a business POV we have dumb terminals and a "cloud" server..
I vaguely remember looking at some dumb terminals from Wyse about 15 years ago...
Well they do say that retro is cool...
Personally I want my OS and my data on my PC, I have backup on my WHS and thats it.
Closest I'll come to cloud is certain docs etc up there somewhere for use on my Smartphone...
I wouldn't put too much stock in this story. Its not in the best interest of Microsoft to move Windows 8-or whatever it will be called-to the cloud. Right now this is all speculation and we know how accurate these "experts" are.
It would be optional too (and certainly opt-in). There'd be an outcry from the millions with an average connection never mind those still on 56k or with poor broadband.
I can imagine it being a Live-style thing... it's there if you want it, here's how you use it, etc... just more hooked into the the OS rather than a simple installer.
Still, it's the way things are heading unfortunately. :(
So were mainframes. They were a bad idea back then, they're an even worse idea now.Quote:
Originally Posted by BullDogg
Indeed, I think it might just be more about a cloud event based pattern type thingie.
If anyone has ever used mobile broadband when you worried about the cost of each few kb, you will know how much better say Exchange or even Notes (gasp!) was at the bandwidth cost than google mail, or OWA.
With any cloud model most people work out a good efficent way of passing the events and state across to the end user. Having an OS more integrated that way would be a selling point I guess. So I'd imagine it been a simple case of taking the windows7 libraries and adding a few on cloud provider paths. MS also know they have to watch out for anti-trust stuff. Then on the other end we might have full on cirtix style virtulisation going on.
But if they overhauled the roaming profile, provide a nice almost ESB style system out of the box, I'd be quite happy.
Make it something like chrome os and erm, whats the point?
Business wise things are moving very much in that direction, though adoption is likely to be slow.Quote:
Originally Posted by [GSV]Trig
Managing hundreds of "fat" clients is an administrative nightmare. If a user spends all day on some pretty simple applications, why waste all of the maintenance and power of a workstation on that user when they can have a desktop that's effectively reimaged each time they log off.
There's a huge amount of bull**** floating around this kind of technology right now though.