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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.

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

I'm absolutely with you. Boiling frog and all. 10 years ago nobody would have believed that you'd require an online account to log into your local machine.

As soon as it's viable from a business point of view (as in people will swallow it), it will be cloud only.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what does Microsoft gain by that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Subscription fees instead of single-buy licenses are generally more profitable after 1-2 years. This whole cloud crap is a pure vendors' market.

Also, telemetry isn't required anymore when users just use cloud services. That's what made Google and Facebook big after all.