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The minute Microsoft makes it so that you can only use their OS at home from a cloud account is the day I stop having Windows OS on one of my computers. Most now have Linux, but there are a few applications that won’t run on Linux (tax preparation software being one example).
Too bad, I’m already using Zorin OS.
So is this to create ready alternatives to surface?
Not just great, but superduper!
Now when Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, it will be the only version available because “your” computer will automatically switch to the latest version in the cloud.
You can’t hold off until the second service pack to update.
No more of this silly letting other unwitting customers do the beta testing.
What’s not to love?
Since I’m not always hooked up to the Internet, I’ll pass on Microsoft’s latest and greatest...
Linux rulz...
Not interested at all
Bad enough that office 365 is subscriber based 🤮
“Chrome threat” was in the headline so I assumed the article was satire. Neither linux (the basis for Google’s handheld-centric open-source android OS) nor Chrome OS (Google’s open-source android for Intel-based desktops) were ever considered a threat to Microsofts hold on the desktop nor the enterprise server markets because that was never the linux market anyway.
Most of the Internet’s servers ran on unix until the end of the last century ran on Unix before some Scandinavians discovered that the original creators vanished and no copyright owner existed;t7 nobody had updated it until the 1990s because it was sufficient for 1970s Internet protocols.
In the early 1990s, Linus Torvalds led a team to update Unix to current (for the time) hardware and software capabilities. It was renamed linux in Torvalds’ honour.
In the meantime, others future-proofed linux by creating the Open Source Licence: Anyone can download and/or change any of the source code, but if they use it in any product for resale they have to publish the code that they’ve modified. Thanks to Google, android phones are the equal to, and less expensive, than iOS which is proprietary to Apple.
Right now on the internet server market, last time I checked Red Hat dominated while the Desktop market IIRC has been Ubunto for more than a decade. The beauty of linux is that new PC hardware players can develop their own version of the latest linux far more cheaply that doing their own OS from scratch. Why reinvent the wheel and rediscover fire?
Microsoft still keeps Internet Information, out of the box for Windows Server and downloadable for free for desktop for any Windows pro Desktop (I played with it on a machine running Windows 2010 Professional) and concluded that it was useful at home for anyone with a static IP and low inbound traffic. Windows Pro also supports FTP out of the box where one can integrate an FTP server into File Explorer, log into it just once, map available folders on the remote FTP site to a drive or mount the folder in the file system. After that, FTP transfers are like moving any file between folders. The only limiting factors are speed and reliability of the Internet connection; cable is the worst option at any speed because of dropped packets. DSL is slower in bits per second but faster for files of any size bigger than a few megabytes.
But I’ve only spent 30 years in the industry so what do I know. You’re obviously the expert because you found something written by someone who hates Microsoft and Bill Gates. You must be right because what do I know? Your knowledge came from the Internet so it must be true.
John LeBlanc
curtana Media
curtana,ca
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