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Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud (www.theregister.com)

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The Windows 365 Link is a small black box that connects over the internet to a Windows 365 Cloud PC running in the Azure cloud. Microsoft has priced it at $349 (£349), and its real utility is to those fully invested in Microsoft's cloudy vision.

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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The circle of computing: thin-thick-thin-thick-thin

[–] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Absolutely. These existed years ago, I remember putting them in for a client. I also put in Sun Java Stations for another client. Neither of these were "cloud" but they were both running what we now call commonly Virtual Desktop Environments (VDI) from on-premises servers.