Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

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[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Suddenly it's 1960

What's being described was called "time-sharing" back then:

  1. Leased hardware; as in, "Dumb Terminals"
  2. Off-site everything else; software and 'your' data. Held hostage to your continued monthly payments.

The end of "Personal Computing".

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess personal computing was too good to be true, anyway.

The only way to get personal computing back in some kind of meaningful way, if personal manufacturing of nm-scale devices becomes a thing.

Then again, a founder of a company inventing too cheap to measure manufacturing would probably be killed as soon as they publish their existence, because it would fuck up the security architecture of every nation.