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Comment Re:Thin Clients again (Score 1) 83

For enterprise...and frankly, if they added a free desktop to my office 365 home subscription, I would probably use it. I store a lot of my stuff on OneDrive so being able to be somewhere and get access to my stuff from a desktop I know I own and control (control with respect to people I am not in a subscription relationship with) would be nice.

Comment Re:Personal Computing is dead (Score 1) 83

It was sane for the time because the compute power of a mainframe and the flexibility of tasks a mainframe could perform for a company was limited. That is no longer the case. Equating a full GUI desktop experience to a timeshare text terminal experience doesn't make sense.

Comment Re:Personal Computing is dead (Score 1) 83

Centralizing desktop functions for an enterprise is about saving tens of millions in hardware costs. If staff can interact using a centralized virtual desktop they can walk up to any terminal and there work is sitting there, exactly how they left it when they went to lunch. The flexibility and reliability that brings to a business is ridiculously valuable.

PCs were used as endpoints because servers were not powerful enough for the scale of operations that were happening at businesses, or, the business was so small that it could not afford a server infrastructure. Now, all of that is gone. Servers can serve up the end point experience for workers anywhere around the planet. It's one of the few times a change in business practice has happened because of the technical superiority as opposed to some stupid trend.

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