Microsoft has been focusing a significant part of its development on the cloud for a long time. They achieved this by offering Office 365 in this format and under the subscription model, and are now paving the way for it. do the same with windows.

At least, that’s what came out during the lawsuit that the FTC and Microsoft are facing over their intent to buy Activision. They had access to an internal Microsoft presentation at The Verge that clearly demonstrates the creation of “Windows 365 to provide a complete Windows operating system deployed from the cloud to any device” from June 2022.

In fact, the Redmond company already offers something like this for business users, but this offer makes it clear that the intention is to offer the same option to end users. “Moving Windows 11 to more and more cloud‘ is clearly marked, along with other goals, such as creating a “custom silicon”, theoretically its own microprocessor, for the Surface family in the same way that Apple does for its Macs.

Source: Verge.

We got access to Windows 365 in September 2021. At the time, the offer allowed us to use Windows 10 in the cloud and thus connect to some kind of PC in the cloud to work from any device (including iPads). Our impressions were bittersweet, because while the concept is interesting, we just couldn’t find the advantages compared to using a traditional PC locally.

As The Verge points out, one such option is being worked on, and a future Windows 11 update will supposedly include “Windows 365 Boot”. This feature will allow Windows 11 devices to sign in directly to a cloud PC instance This: once they start, what we’re going to manage is the instance in the cloud, not our locally installed OS.

We’ll see if this offer holds up as Office 365, which has long been a part of Microsoft 365. There are use cases of course, but it will be interesting to see if the general public is convinced that their PCs are connected to an operating system in the cloud rather than as-is. the idea to use it as a device.

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