Recently Microsoft released the link 365 which is basically a thin client for Azure. You can’t run anything locally nor is there any local files. It literally just connects you to a desktop elsewhere.

Do you think this is what Windows 12 might look like? I feel like this idea is not practical for average consumers. Maybe they will make something that’s like Chrome OS?

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    5 days ago

    Why do you say that no business wants this? Obviously, thin clients have been a thing for decades now. This is just another thin client, nothing more.

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      5 days ago

      Thin clients have been failing to sell and being cursed by entire verticals, from individual contributors to top management any time they find an exception for that failure since the 1990s.

      No thin client ever saw repeat customers since dump terminals went away. But yeah, if your point is that they exist and have curstomers, that’s true.