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Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC that only runs Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] griefstricken@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

This is getting closer to the meme about the Javascript-based streamed operating system.

The only explanation I will now accept for how pointlessly laggy Windows can be is that Microsoft was deliberately increasing the latency to prepare customers for an online-only OS. Curse them.