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Microsoft Reportedly Working On a 'Lightweight Version of Windows' Known As 'Cloud Shell' (neowin.net)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neowin: Last week, details emerged of Microsoft's plans to develop a single, unified, 'adaptive shell' for Windows 10. Known as the 'Composable Shell', or CSHELL, the company's efforts were said to be focused on establishing a universal Windows 10 version with a standardized framework to scale and adapt the OS to any type of device, display size or user experience, including smartphones, PCs, tablets, consoles, large touchscreens, and more. Today, Petri reported that Microsoft is working on a new shell for Windows known as 'Cloud Shell'. According to internal documentation referred to in that report, Cloud Shell is described as a "lightweight version of Windows designed for the modern computing world." It also hints at plans to introduce the Cloud Shell sometime in 2017 -- but little else is known about the new shell besides that. Cloud Shell is said to be connected, in some way, with the Windows Store and Universal Windows Platform app framework, and the report speculates that it may also be related to Microsoft's plans to bring the full version of Windows 10 to mobile devices with ARM-based processors, which it announced in December. However, the cloud nomenclature, and the reference to this being a 'lightweight' version of Windows could hint at a 'thin client'-style approach, in which the Windows 10 shell could be streamed from Microsoft's Azure platform to any device with an internet connection, while its cloud servers remotely handle all of the processing and storage requirements of each users' tasks.
Another product no one asked for or wanted.
Interestingly, the internal name is Universal Data Harvester.
Cloud Shell is said to be connected, in some way, with the Windows Store and Universal Windows Platform app framework,
Does anyone even use either of those?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Rumors claiming that a space was misplaced by one character during creation of the marketing materials, and the product was originally to be called "Clouds Hell" cannot be confirmed at this time.
Microsoft sells cshells by the sea shore.
The shells Microsoft sells are surely cshells.
So if Microsoft sells shells on the seashore,
I’m sure Microsoft sells seashore shells.
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What is old is new again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinWin
Or you could just run ReactOS in a VM.
At least on the desktop. I am sure 'compromises' will be made that will favor mobile interface layout and aesthetics.
CLoud shit, another product from the reverse midas than instead of turning everything it touches into gold, turns into turds. And no, I have not forgot to post as AC.
... hey we have all this billions invested in WindowsPhone OS that we don't know what to do with since we plan to leave the market? Any ideas?
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How about getting 64 bit x86 to work instead of emulating 32 bit x86 which is 1980s technology?
Nowadays everything wants to connect to the cloud. I mean you pull up Apple or Google maps on a phone and it can't even display a generic map showing where you are. It insists on asking the cloud. Yet somehow the OS is like 16 gigabytes in size. How can it take up 16 gigabytes when it doesn't know anything?
Your OS runs in the cloud and you shell out money every month to use it
Doesn't this sound awfully like the Chrome OS? Just Microsoft running the servers instead of Google?
In a couple of years they will be releasing a browser called Navigator.
I know CS degree programs are supposed to be hard, but not THAT hard.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
It'll bring everything you love about Windows to the Cloud.
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All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
Great! Now they'll have an operating system that only takes 10 minutes to boot up instead of the 20 minutes currently required.
Proverbs 21:19
who read that as "Compostable Shell"?
Seems fitting for a shitty product...
Surely an oxymoron.
The cloud is the business of human behavior, leaded by Facebook.
Now people just make fun of Microsoft, when it says vaguely plausible things they might have actually invested on. Even stupid idea like warehousing products in the near earth orbit and delivering packages using Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles by Amazon would be discussed seriously. But Microsoft? nah! No one believes it can do what it says it wants to do. Including the VP in charge of the project.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
The first C-SHELL will suck.
It will be followed by a new and improved TurboCSHELL...
And just like that we are back to the days of mainframes/dumb terminals except that know we will call it the cloud/thin client. The reason are simple, vendor lock-in, walled gardens and "services" instead of ownership means you can milk your clients for years instead of selling them something once
n/t
Have gnu, will travel.
I used to do a lot of stuff in a lightweight environment called C-Shell and it was really awesome, but that was more than 30 years ago and it really didn't have a lot to do with MS.
This might actually work if it supports standard Windows software. For example, you may have an old machine running few selected programs, or even have an actually light version of Windows for Raspberry.
Sounds like they are bringing back Windows NT.
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If Micro$oft wants to please me, they need to work on a Lightweight version of Windows known as Linux.
You mean their cshills?
...but instead of needing to because of technology and cost constraints, Microsoft is doing it as a method of control. Once Microsoft has the O.S. and your data on their servers, they have you by the curlies. You'll pay what they tell you to pay to access your own data or they pull the trigger.
Don't trust any concentration of power.
So the Azure platform will be in some far away place. People will access it using "thin" clients. The C Shell name also has been co opted. I predict next the display will be called Virtual Teleport 100 or something, and it display 24 lines each 80 characters in beautiful glowing green phosphors.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Microsoft Windows XP "end of life": Conflict of interest.
Computer scientists will love this
...eventually. UWP is a self contained environment with access to APIs that are outside the scope of Win32, as MS updates its APIs to integrate with these services and also other features of UWP, they will further diverge from Win32, meaning Win32 will stop seeing API updates and be relegated to an "insecure" and deprecated status.
MS is shifting Windows to a walled garden and will drag everyone there kicking and screaming.
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That's why they are getting Linux utilities running on Windows now natively, so they can easily interact with Windows services and become dependent on them.
If people put up with Microsoft's shit this far and haven't bolted, there's no hope for humanity. Honestly don't know what it would take at this point to make people move away from Windows en masse. Maybe an Android desktop will help but it's a long shot.
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I'll take the lightweight version with a 'old school' UI that only does OS tasks without the shop and telemetry thank you very much.
We have only 17 XP computers, not a lot. But no problems.
We use other protection, of course.