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Martin Brinkmann reports via gHacks
Microsoft is working on a new Windows 10 SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) that the company named Windows 10 Cloud internally.
First signs of Windows 10 Cloud appeared a week or so ago on the Internet, but it was not clear back then what this new edition of Windows 10 would offer. Suggestions ranged from a cloud-based operating system to a subscription-based system similar to Office 365, and a successor of Windows RT.
[...] Windows 10 Cloud [is] a revival of the Windows RT version of Windows.
[...] Windows 10 Cloud [will] only run Windows Store applications and apps that Microsoft made to work with the operating system. Any legacy Windows 32 program [will] not work on systems running Windows 10 Cloud.
[...] Windows 10 Cloud is a work in progress. Things may change along the way before it is released.
Windows 10 Cloud behaves as you would expect it to behave. Cortana walks you through the first steps of setup on first start, and you may notice that quite a few apps are listed in Start after [OS] installation.
Some of these apps are first-party applications or games, while others [are] third-party applications. The selection includes Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, and on the games side, Age of Empires Castle Siege, Asphalt 8, and Royal Revolt, among others.
Most don't appear to be installed though, but merely links to the application's Windows Store entry.
[...] You are stuck with Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer as the browser, and with Windows Defender as the security solution.
Several comments there mention how this will be competing with Android, iOS, and Chromebooks. Do you see a viable niche for what Redmond is offering? ... or is 420 correct when he says, "a company [...] determined to put themselves out of business"?
Also at Ars Technica.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Sunday February 05 2017, @07:17PM
You ignore the possibility that my political views have had the same level of study and reflection put into their development and that it is you who are hopelessly ignorant and misguided.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2017, @08:51PM
Doing the work and getting the wrong answer should be an indicator that you're doing something wrong.
...and constant consumption of Faux Noise and Breitbart is NOT "doing the work".
Starting from the (selfish, racist, White-privileged, mean-spirited, non-empathetic) answer you want and working backwards, eliminating any facts that are counter to the Reactionary result you want to achieve, isn't a legit process.
and reflection
Ideological naval gazing isn't "reflection".
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 05 2017, @09:51PM
Dude - SJW's are losing it. Fuck all your selfish, racist, White-privileged, mean spirited, non-empathic bullshit propaganda. Jmorris may not always be exactly "right", but he's not far wrong. The bullshit you just spouted? Half of it isn't even in the ballpark, the rest is up in the topmost bleacher seat, half hidden by the bird shit.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by jmorris on Sunday February 05 2017, @11:52PM
..and constant consumption of Faux Noise and Breitbart is NOT "doing the work".
Look at the silly little Prog AC who knows his talking points about Fox News and Breitbart and knows nothing of substance.
I think it is precious how you think those are the taste makers. FNC is the voice of the cuckservative establishment along with National Review, the editorial page of the WSJ and the Weekly Standard. (note the common ownership of three of those four) Breitbart is pushing some ideas out to a broader audience but they merely popularizers, they are not the source. Go deeper. Come to the dark side, at least to stare into the face of your true Foe and know it.
We are the Dark Enlightenment. We are questioning everything. We are reading old books. We keep finding ever more interesting and heretical Questions as we dig deeper and deeper in our search for Truth. We still haven't found a lot of answers but we are already discarding most of your faith as obviously wrong. Some think we took a wrong turn early on in the Enlightenment, hence the name for the overall movement. Some believe the fork is nearer 1776 with the French Revolution as the bad side of the fork and the American Revolution being OK or at least neutral. But we are all in agreement that just about everything from 1850ish (+/- 50 years) forward has been down the wrong path. We hold that Conservatism has conserved nothing because it isn't designed to conserve anything, thus it is useless. Some think Christianity also either went wrong or was wrong from the start, others think it is an integral part of any solution; but even things so fundamental are on the table for debate. There is almost universal agreement that "equalism" does not accord with reality and is therefore a basic error; there is great disagreement as to what the consequences of this insight should be.
Basically, all of the interesting philosophical debate is happening so far outside the Overton Window most people are utterly unaware of it. But soon they will be unable to avoid noticing it because it is hitting a critical mass and pulling the WIndow toward it as the failures of the Progressive / Globalist order become obvious. So come see what is happening, if you dare.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 06 2017, @12:32PM
Curious, so I did a search for "dark enlightenment". I found several links that are "interesting". Haven't found anything really worthy of serious attention. The worst of what I found justifies the American left's contempt for the "alt-right". The best of what I found seems to be so much mumbo-jumbo.
So, how 'bout how tell us WTF you're talking about? Dark enlightenment? Come on, give it up! If Darth Vader is to be our new Supreme Leader and Master, we need time to get used to the idea.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday February 06 2017, @03:17PM
Yup, you can't explore the Dark Enlightenment without encountering Moldbug. I'd suggest starting at Nick Land's The Dark Enlightenment [thedarkenlightenment.com] even though that blog is basically dead now. Look at the three tabs at the top, they are a very good intro to the ideas. Poke around the DE world a bit. They are the intellectual base but too intellectual to build a movement around that does much by themselves.
The Alt-Right is a related but much broader group of people who usually share some of the DE ideas but mix in other stuff, the theme there seems to focus on application vs theory though. And yes, there you WILL find Nazis, and worse because once it was clear action was the plan it attracted the usual suspects. How do you openly discuss the fallacy of "equalism" without attracting the Stormfront crazies? But anyway, next stop should probably be Vox Day (the Supreme Dark Lord) and his work. His "SJWs Always Lie" is the main tiepoint between the Alt-Right and Gamergate. His division of the Alt-Right into Alt-Lite, Alt-West, Alt-White, etc. seems to have taken hold and been widely adopted. His 14 points are also a useful tool, note that few people who fly the alt-right banner agree to all 14 but they always agree to a majority and which points are agreed to and which not pretty much reveals which of the subdivisions one falls into.
After that hit an aggregator like theshitlordhub [blogspot.com] and explore the wide range of heretical thought going on. A classic gab post kinda sums up what is happening. It went something like "it is a weird world now, my daily news feed is mostly coming from sites run by a Jew (Brietbart) and a Nazi (DailyStormer)." But it typical, ideas are flowing unchecked between all sort of people, movements and subcultures. Mostly peacefully even, barring a few flamewars and shitposts that define Internet culture everywhere. And it is worldwide. And yes the chans are involved, along with reddit and even the maniacs at mpcdot.com. It is barely contained chaos.
Probably why the legacy media are so confused, even when they aren't intentionally lying and slandering. They probably do have a difficult time understanding a leaderless organization that has open neonazis peacefully interacting in the same groups that also like guys (for certain values of guy) like Milo. Only explanation I can offer is we all seem to agree the world has went wrong, many of the ideas we cherished are turning out to be based on error, things are near a breaking point and we have to work on solving it since nobody else is. The benefits of the feverish pace of intellectual ferment made possible by bringing so many wildly differing groups into a subculture outweigh any worries about purity. For now. Eventually I suspect something will need to be done about the 1488 types, but that is just me.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 06 2017, @12:46PM
https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-letter-to-open-minded-progressives.html [blogspot.com]
That guy? I'm kinda working my way through his stuff. He does have a seductive style of writing, but I'm watching for the racism. Some of the crap I saw on other sites almost resembles nazism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @02:00PM
"We are the Dark Enlightenment."
aka: you're a nigger and whine like a nigger. You think your pointless rambling will change peoples minds? alt-left / alt-right - same bunch of niggers whining about fake oppression. So tired of you worthless fucks. It's why I have to deal with a phony orange money in the white house who ran against a phony cuked woman. And never mind the actual monkey for the past 8 years who who appealed to the alt-left while pulling an alt-right and wiping his ass with the constitution. And president orange chimp is doing more of the same right after twatting about how president monkey face abused his power and signed so many executive orders. I mean how fucking stupid are people?
Face it. You along with 99% of the population havn't the slightest fucking clue whats going on politically. Everything you read is a skewed biased lie from the biggest news outlets down the "darkest corners" of independent blogs full of the ramblings of nutters. And better yet, you don't have the balls to admit you are wrong, voted for the wrong guy, and I'm betting has buyers remorse. Hows that white nigger "pulled myself up by my boot straps" pride doin for ya? Fucking moron.