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Recently Microsoft released the link 365 which is basically a thin client for Azure. You can't run anything locally nor is there any local files. It literally just connects you to a desktop elsewhere.

Do you think this is what Windows 12 might look like? I feel like this idea is not practical for average consumers. Maybe they will make something that's like Chrome OS?

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The future of windows is /dev/null

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Investors won't be interested in that, it sounds too complicated. How about /dev/null as a Service?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What would be cool is if there was a company that made Linux platform that was consumer focused.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Linux Mint, Ubuntu, even Arch are tying to make Linux easier to use for average consumers

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Isn't that what canonical was trying to do for years now?