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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: 2) by jmorris on Monday February 06 2017, @03:17PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday February 06 2017, @03:17PM (#463446)

    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.

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