Re: An interesting change of direction by MS

2021-07-11 Thread Greg Keogh
> > A part of me feels sad to see things all going to the cloud. Perhaps one > day we won’t even be able to do anything meaningful “locally” on our device > if there is no Internet access. > [It's not Friday but] I'm so sick of decades of installing, configuring, repairing and updating operating s

Re: An interesting change of direction by MS

2021-07-11 Thread mike smith
Then you get one service going down that takes multiple important services with it. Off the top of my head recently https://www.zdnet.com/article/akamai-apologises-after-outage-left-australias-major-banks-and-airline-systems-offline/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sabre-systems-it-outage-cripples-

Re: An interesting change of direction by MS

2021-07-11 Thread Tom Rutter
A part of me feels sad to see things all going to the cloud. Perhaps one day we won’t even be able to do anything meaningful “locally” on our device if there is no Internet access. Kind of like how we now need electricity and Internet access for our phones at home whereas before with land lines we

Re: An interesting change of direction by MS

2021-07-11 Thread David Connors
We have a lot of customers already there with AVD - which is an interesting value prop with paying for the resources you use. One of the surprisingly few clear use cases for cloud elasticity. Apparently Windows 11 runs on the Raspberry PI too - interesting $ entry point for an AVD client if it run

Re: An interesting change of direction by MS

2021-07-11 Thread Tom Rutter
Probably the same will be said about Windows in general down the road. We’ll probably just have our whole OS somewhere in the cloud and we’ll just “remote” to it from our laptops. On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 17:18, David Connors wrote: > SQL Server of Linux has been out for a while and I think it was