Redmond is hiring people to work at selling, and in theory supporting, the Microsoft Managed Desktop. For this fee you can be confident that your device will be set up exactly the way Microsoft intended and perhaps even have someone to talk other than Cortana if things go belly up. It seems to be part of the Desktop As A Service business model, with this being a monthly lease to keep your hardware, as well as ensuring Bing remains as your main search engine. It is unclear from The Inquirer or the sites they linked to if you need to bring your own device or if your monthly bill includes a device; though at $10 a month it seems unlikely hardware is included.
"INQ predicts that "correctly" will involve all analytics possible being sent to Microsoft, Cortana made to interrupt everything to offer an opinion like some Blade Runner-esque version of Clippy, and worst of all, Bing being constantly reset as the default search engine."
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- Western Digital wonders why enterprise isn't keen on its solid-state drives @ The Register
- AMD Threadripper 2990WX listing outs CPU's hefty £1,400 price-tag @ The Inquirer
- Microsoft celebrates a bumper financial year … by making stuff pricier @ The Register
- Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition now ships with Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS @ The Inquirer
- Guru3D PC Buyers Guide Summer 2018
- LinkedIn voice messaging subjects your contacts to your unstructured b*llocks @ The Inquirer
- Arozzi Mezzo V2 Gaming Chair Review @ NikKTech
May as well lease under the
May as well lease under the single subscriber Enterprise edition licensing and cut out all the slurping and candy crush of crapware bloat. Windows 10 is going subscriber anyways after windows 7 goes EOL.
M$ does not care about windows anymore as all it cares about is its services income and windows 10 will become subscription based with that windows 10 S(Useless) mode being what you will be stuck with if you do not pony up for a monthly subscription.
It’s not hard to figure out what M$ is up to what with the PC market shrinking and Apple making billions on its relatively smaller market share of devices where Apple Milks for subscription services. But at least Apple has not ruined its MacOS in an attempt to turn that into some phone like ecosystem like M$ is doing to its PC/laptop customers.
All those Windows update cockups are happening too often lately and more folks are being robbed of their productive workflows. If you add up all the hours wasted by users having to fix what M$ has screwed up lately then Apple’s pricy hardware does not appear to be such a bad proposition in the long run.
M$ has lost the Phone/Mainstream tablet market from day one and M$’s PC/Laptop users are the ones suffering the most from Redmond’s crazy attempts at milking PCs/Laptops into uselessness.
Windows 7 after 2020 will sit nicely locked down inside a Linux Kernel based VM/Hypervisor like KVM/Xen and used to run any legacy software while many will move over to Apple and some Linux based PC/Laptops. More folks will be moving over to Tablets/Phones running Android or Chromebooks and not using M$’s services or OS products at all.
Those that do not want to lose control over their PC/Laptop hardware will have to move to Linux or suffer and many will be forced to accept Linux or lose control forever over their hardware. Under M$ you will become grist for the mill that “Future” that M$ envisions.
You have not heard yet that
You have not heard yet that Apple plans on joining the Mac OS and IOS eco system together as one OS so both mobile and desktop use the same OS and that they are rumored to be cutting Intel out of the picture so they can do their own CPU’s for both the desktop and mobile devices.
Post a link confirming or
Post a link confirming or it’s not going to appear true about MacOS and iOS. If AMD would just get an APU with it’s own HBM2, on die or on module, the AMD could probably get some Apple business for x86. Apple should be really starting to consider Epyc for its next Mac Pro generation as that’s more features 8 memory channels and 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes.
Yep this is just the second
Yep this is just the second stage of going all out subscription model for Windows as a service at some point you will have the choice of a monthly charge or if you want to full version of Windows they probably will make you pay through the nose for it.
Hey Servethehome is doing
Hey Servethehome is doing memory population tests for Epyc and it’s looks like for linux kernel compiles that the difference between having 4 memory channels and 8 shows not that much better performance wise between 4 or 8 channels. It’s interesting as this testing with some memory channels umpopulated with only 4 or the 8 memory channels populated is great for TR2 workload comparsion where Threadripper2 will only come with 4 memory channels on TR2/TR4 motherboards.
“AMD EPYC Naples Memory Population Performance Impact”
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-naples-memory-population-performance-impact-at-16-cores/