Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud
It’s a mini PC that connects to a powerful cloud PC.
Almost every cloud based device I've ever owned ended up either putting an increasing number of basic features that were originally free behind a subscription paywall or simply turned itself into a brick when it stopped being supported.
$350 for a thin client locked out of doing anything useful and requiring a subscription to function?
The Link device is designed to be a compact, fanless, and easy-to-use cloud PC for your local monitors and peripherals. It’s meant to be the ideal companion to Microsoft’s Windows 365 service, which lets businesses transition employees over to virtual machines that exist in the cloud and can be streamed securely to multiple devices.
It sounds like it's part of a broader strategy to have companies outsource their IT to Microsoft.
Yeah but it's priced the same as a cheap laptop and/or desktop, which of course doesn't then require you to pay monthly to actually use the stupid thing.
It feels like another 'Microsoft asked Microsoft what Microsoft management would buy, and came up with this' product, and less one that actually has a substantial market, especially when you're trying to sell a $350 box that costs you $x a month to actually use as a 'business solution'.
This would probably be a cool product at $0 with-a-required-contract-with-Azure, but at $350.... meh, I suspect it's a hard sale given the VDI stuff on Azure isn't cheap.
For that price you can just get a raspberry pi 5, you can stream on it but also use it as a low end Linux machine
Imagine spending 350 bucks on a device that turns into useless e-waste the second M$ changes their business strategy
No one here is talking about the subscription that will come with it...
If it streams from someone's else computer,you will have to pay for that "service"....
Why pay Windows once when you can pay it every month!
Makes sense for a business. Less so for the individual.
But for that you can buy a mini PC that runs it locally. What the fuck is this even for?
What the fuck is this even for?
Like most Microsoft hardware made after a certain year: Microsoft fans who will literally buy a box of feces if M$ sold it.
Corporates. 60€/month is an acceptable price for them.
This feels way too expensive for what is a dumbed down device. Maybe $50-$100, but you would still end up paying quite a bit for something that requires a subscription.
For the price they are asking, you could get a desktop with OK performance that will be free forever after that.
You could buy a steam deck for this price
Goodbye privacy
Yep, that sound worth than Recall.
People are buying that shit?! LOLOLOLOL
I thought this was a mini-pc to compete with the mac mini, until I realized its streaming only. I'd much rather cough up the extra $250 for the insane jump in power that the mac mini gives you.
i think this is the most stupid product i have ever heard of. I can't help but imagine the unholy latency of transferring files from "your computer" to an external storage.
So they reinvented the thin client. Wow.
If they made it cheaper it would at least make sense.
It looks pretty ig
No thanks. I do want the large wifi enabled suppository that probably comes with it 😉. I can use that in times of loneliness and despair.
