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posted by on Sunday February 05 2017, @04:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the RT-redux dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @02:23PM (#463423)

    It's called free market capitalism, stupid. You sound like a socialist commie. The idea is to make money. People freely walking about your "disconnected" platform are not under your control. Don't like it? Don't buy it.

    Why do you think the PC is increasingly becoming more and more a game console? Smart phones and tablets are almost there. New black box "secure" firmware systems, à la EFI/UEFI, TPM's, and deeply embedded management processors that can do god knows what outside of OS control. And now we are being pushed into the cloud and allowing grossly invasive devices into our homes such as "smart" TV's, Alexa, Google phones, Apple phones, and IoT. We openly invite devices that phone home to servers god knows where under control of god knows who. They can now openly monitor your entire life. Now we are giving control of physical devices of everything from your lights to your locks to these same people. How long before we hear about no-knock raids where they unlocked the doors using IoT and executed based on "evidence" gathered by their phones, TV's, and light bulbs?

    At the current rate of hostile takeover by various syndicates, including the US government, we are going to loose the open computing platform in 10 years. And it wont be because some pawn in the government makes it illegal. It will be be because people are lazy and eat this kind of shit up. They hoodwinked us using bread and circuses along with the illusion of voting.

    Enjoy.