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Microsoft's Coming Windows 10 Cloud Release May Have Nothing To Do With the Cloud (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the clearing-the-cloud dept.

Last week, several users spotted a mention of "Windows Cloud" in Windows 10 inside builds, speculating if it is a new version of Windows 10 which will stream from Azure. That's not the case, according to long-time Microsoft journalist Mary Jo Foley. From a report: Windows 10 Cloud is a simplifed version of Windows 10 that will be able to run only Unified Windows Platform (UWP) apps installed from the Windows Store, my contacts say. Think of it as being similar to the version of Windows 10 formerly known as Windows RT or the Windows 8.1 with Bing SKU. Windows 10 Cloud is meant to help Microsoft in its ongoing campaign to attempt to thwart Chromebooks with a simpler, safer, cheaper version of Windows 10, my contacts say, though Microsoft is unlikely to position it that way (publicly). Windows 10 Cloud seemingly has little or nothing to do with the cloud.

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  1. I can see customers lining up now . . . by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Funny

    So Windows 10 Cloud is a merely a more crippled version of Windows 10 that only runs Windows Stores Apps (formerly known as Metro apps). Thankfully there are lots of useful apps from Windows Store . . . not. [sarcasm] How people must be camping out to get Windows 10 Cloud.[/sarcasm]

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    1. Re:I can see customers lining up now . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      So Windows 10 Cloud is a merely a more crippled version of Windows 10 that only runs Windows Stores Apps (formerly known as Metro apps).

      With Windows 10 Cloud Release all software formerly referred to as "Windows Store Apps" will now be known as Cloud Release Apps (or CRApps for short).

  2. Re: AKA Windows 10 Phone by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    But with a hint of luck it may one day be as popular as Palm OS is.

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  3. Only apps can app apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the appiest version of Appdows 10! Only LUDDITES would want the LUDDITE version of LUDDITE Windows 10!

    Apps!