I should be excited for something like this. I don't want to devote a computer to frickin' Windows, especially not a powerful one. If I need Windows occasionally, being able to spin it up, do what I need, then shut it down and forget about it.
I just fear Microsoft's implementation of it. Like all of Windows will migrate to a privacy- and freedom-disrespecting cloud instance. PCs will ship with a minimal, Citrix-like OS that just connects to this and you have to reup your subscription to do... well, anything. That sort of thing.
I hear you, this might be a privacy nightmare, and I am not sure that the public at large cares a great deal about it, if it means supercheap computers that only have to login basically.
And the subscription is another headache since if you depend on it, they can set any price.
>I should be excited for something like this. I don't want to devote a computer to frickin' Windows, especially not a powerful one. If I need Windows occasionally, being able to spin it up, do what I need, then shut it down and forget about it.
VMs are perfect for that. Why would you want an inferior (slower etc.) version with all your data on MS's servers?
I have an ARM Mac, I want the performance of a native x86 computer, and I don’t have to share my 24GB of RAM with the VM.
And we are talking about a a quarter an hour for a 4 vCPU 16GB instance.
It’s a simple bash script to start up the instance and start session manager system manager to create a no ingress tunnel to the instance to run RDP over
I just fear Microsoft's implementation of it. Like all of Windows will migrate to a privacy- and freedom-disrespecting cloud instance. PCs will ship with a minimal, Citrix-like OS that just connects to this and you have to reup your subscription to do... well, anything. That sort of thing.