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Microsoft's Rumored CloudBook Could Be Your Next Cheap Computer (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a few weeks, at its education-oriented software and hardware event in New York, Microsoft could unveil a sub-premium laptop -- something more robust than a Surface but not as fancy as a Surface Book. And rather than run good old Windows 10, the new product could run something called Windows 10 Cloud, which reportedly will only be able to run apps that you can find in the Windows Store, unless you change a certain preference in Settings. The idea is that this will keep your device more secure. However, that does mean you won't be able to use certain apps that aren't in the Store -- like Steam -- on a Windows 10 Cloud device, such as the rumored CloudBook. Microsoft is going after Google's Chromebooks that are very popular in the education space -- so much so that they are playing an instrumental role in keeping the entire PC shipments up.
>> reportedly will only be able to run apps that you can find in the Windows Store
So...a brick by design? The only reason to still run Windows is to run stuff that ISN'T in an app store.
So you essentially turned your $250 Dell laptop into the $500 Dell laptop you could've bought in the first place.
Microsoft doesn't want OEM's building cheap full Windows machines - i.e., the kind where the Windows license accounts for 30% of the price of the machine. They will go as far as making Windows Cloud free for OEMs in order to keep from being pressured to make full Windows 10 free for 'real' laptops.
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...
And what forces poor people to buy baby food that they can't afford, regardless of who's marketing it to them?
Nestle has been accused of two things. One is failing to label infant formula in local languages. The other is getting mothers "addicted" to formula by providing it without charge to the maternity ward for just long enough that the mother stops producing milk.