$350 for a thin client locked out of doing anything useful and requiring a subscription to function?
The Link device is designed to be a compact, fanless, and easy-to-use cloud PC for your local monitors and peripherals. It’s meant to be the ideal companion to Microsoft’s Windows 365 service, which lets businesses transition employees over to virtual machines that exist in the cloud and can be streamed securely to multiple devices.
It sounds like it’s part of a broader strategy to have companies outsource their IT to Microsoft.
Yeah but it’s priced the same as a cheap laptop and/or desktop, which of course doesn’t then require you to pay monthly to actually use the stupid thing.
It feels like another ‘Microsoft asked Microsoft what Microsoft management would buy, and came up with this’ product, and less one that actually has a substantial market, especially when you’re trying to sell a $350 box that costs you $x a month to actually use as a ‘business solution’.
This would probably be a cool product at $0 with-a-required-contract-with-Azure, but at $350… meh, I suspect it’s a hard sale given the VDI stuff on Azure isn’t cheap.
But for that you can buy a mini PC that runs it locally. What the fuck is this even for?
What the fuck is this even for?
Like most Microsoft hardware made after a certain year: Microsoft fans who will literally buy a box of feces if M$ sold it.
Goodbye privacy
Almost every cloud based device I’ve ever owned ended up either putting an increasing number of basic features that were originally free behind a subscription paywall or simply turned itself into a brick when it stopped being supported.
Imagine spending 350 bucks on a device that turns into useless e-waste the second M$ changes their business strategy
No one here is talking about the subscription that will come with it…
If it streams from someone’s else computer,you will have to pay for that “service”…
Why pay Windows once when you can pay it every month!
You could buy a steam deck for this price
Why would I pay so much for such thing?
Because $350 couldn’t possibly buy enough hardware to run a modern operating system!
- Microsoft, probably
640K ought to be enough for everybody.
I would say Win11 runs rather well even on old crappy devices. If they let it run on it :)
Or just use linux and dont worry.
