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First Screenshots of Microsoft's Windows 10 Cloud OS Leak Online (zdnet.com)
The first alleged screenshots of Microsoft's Windows 10 Cloud operating system have leaked, courtesy of Windows Blog Italia. "The screenshots seem to show a coming version of the operating system that is locked down in a way similar to the way Microsoft locked down Windows RT and, before that the Windows 8.1 with Bing version of Windows," reports ZDNet. From the report: According to Windows Blog Italia, which said they've had a chance to test the current version of Windows 10 Cloud, the product can run Windows Store apps only. The site noted that Windows Store apps built using Microsoft's "Centennial" Desktop bridge, which enables developers to move their Win32 apps to the Windows Store, work on the version of Windows 10 Cloud to which they have access. UWP apps and Windows Store apps have not been synonymous terms. But the important point here is Windows Cloud will be locked down so as to prevent users from installing apps that are not in the Windows 10 Store, which can be seen as a plus from a security and manageability standpoint, but a minus given the less-than-robust collection of UWP/Store apps available for Windows 10. Microsoft is believed to be planning to position Windows 10 Cloud, at least in part, as an alternative to Chrome OS and Chromebooks.
And I'm not a millennial!
Buy a Chromebook, install Wine, and now you've got a more useful computer than this.
This sort of reminds me of the old Windows Starter Editions, but my cynical self makes me wonder if this is a trial balloon for upcoming releases of Windows. It benefits Microsoft a lot, because they will own the entire ecosystem similar to Apple, but even Apple wouldn't have this much of a lock on the desktop.
Both Microsoft and Linux seem to try to constantly copy bad things from mobile. In Linux's case, it's mostly user interface, while in Windows, it's both user interface and an "app store". Why do everyone hate PCs so much nowadays? My guess is a combination of people's love for dumb machines and corporate's desire for control, but I am really not sure if this is the reason.
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There is a lot of speculation about the purpose of this implementation of Windows 10. Everyone says they have the answers and they are all inconsistent with one another. Now I will speculate. I do not think Microsoft is so stupid as to try and release this on the masses. Not even in developing countries. My take is that this is for the enterprise. Well, not precisely. If you have ever seen a Windows computer, or administrated them in a call center environment, they are locked down as fuck. That and similar happens to be a massive market. If you can remove much of the lock down administration required, that would be golden. I don't see this making sense in any other capacity. The truth is, Microsoft has been smartening up as of late, so....
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Windows Blog Italia is backed by Microsoft. The images were not leaked, they were released. Had it been a leak, the entire domain would now be offline.
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Namely the inability to do business without going through MS. Even if Steam can be distributed through Windows Store, can it still perform transactions without giving any money to MS, implement its own DRM scheme, and load 3rd party executables (i.e. the games downloaded)?
In addition, though Win32 apps can be distributed through the Windows Store, this does nothing for the many apps that are no longer in active development, including older versions of applications preferred by some users. Any apps that go against Windows Store policies won't be available, which includes many useful utilities, emulators... and I guess doing software development is out of the question here as well.
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Microsoft is like every other corporation on the planet. It wants slaves, not customers.
No fucking thanks. Do I even need to explain why?
by saying "Windows 8.1....With BING!!!!!111!!!!11ONE" instead of "Crippled piece of shit edition"
Windows 7 was great. WTF happened ?
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The very first screenshot is an error message about app compatibility. I don't know what I expected but somehow that sort of feels like what I would have expected.
Apparently, Microsoft wants to double down on failure.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
I honestly wonder who they expect to buy/use this.
The platform and the OS will be so securely locked down, all the worms and viruses must be signed by a Microsoft approved malware certificate authority.
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I agree, but only to the extent that you can keep others' paws off your Chromebook.
I was under the impression that installing Wine required putting the Chromebook in developer mode, and enabling developer mode caused the Chromebook's firmware to display an "OS verification is off" interstitial for 30 seconds every time the Chromebook is turned on. You can skip the interstitial by pressing Ctrl+D, but someone else who turns on your Chromebook doesn't know this, and the interstitial directs the user to press Space and then Enter to perform a factory reset, which wipes all data from the Chromebook. This causes the user to lose all data that hasn't been backed up yet as well as the use of Wine until the user can return home to reinstall it.
my cynical self makes me wonder if this is a trial balloon for upcoming releases of Windows.
I'll believe it's a trial balloon for eliminating third-party stores once Visual Studio is available in the form of a "Windows Store app".
putting each url on separate lines instead of grouping them logically by SLD
Some hosts parsers do not understand more than one hostname per line, though recent Windows supports up to nine.
inconsistent ordering of the bare versions and the www. versions
Ideally, a hosts parser would use a Bloom filter to cache a large file. But because most operating systems instead use a linear scan, more frequently accessed hostnames should go near the top. If you're using it to work around flaky ISP DNS, hostnames you use frequently should go above hostnames you're blocking. Thus the output of a tool that automatically sorts entries by access frequency might look inconsistent in this manner.
There is a full taskbar, a start button, desktop icons even, and I'm seeing apps with a menu bar.
So I'm thinking people will mistake it for a full version of Windows again. Unless this is just an internal version or something.
I mean, regedit?, explorer.exe?, aren't those Win32 applications?
Now I'm learning that a large subset of Win32 is included in the UWP platform. Well done. So, is Metro dead or something? If that's just a power grab and a way to get devs to write Win32 applications that don't run on Windows 7 and 8, and we get to be smothered by gigabytes of updates anyway, that doesn't feel that interesting anymore.
Now, is there any chance we can get a forward compatible linux desktop one day? Past 2020 or 2023, I wonder how we'll be supposed to run commercial, freeware, proprietary etc. software.
Should I install Windows 7 while I still can? Had I migrated to XP 64 instead of Ubuntu 10.04 years back, I would have had about four years of ability to play games and run properly working software and drivers.
Maybe when you get a new PC/laptop, the question should be asked up front. Do you want to make your PC/Laptop more secure/easier to use/similar to your iPhone (with some small print saying that it will become a cloud-only appliance). If you answer yes then it sets itself to be that. You should also be able to switch between the two modes of operation if the need arises.
Regardless of the source, if this is Windows 10 Cloud, a face palm through the head won't even be enough to express the failure on this.
It's like they don't even know why Window RT failed.