Windows 9 to be the last disk based Windows. Windows 10 will probably be cloud based.

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Details on Windows 10 were also provided, with claims that the future operating system will be a "cloud OS," meaning that all of the processing and computing would be done on Microsoft's servers, and be streamed to your computer, completely eliminating the need for a powerful rig and only requiring the basic bits to run peripherals and such.

Windows 10 would essentially just be a new cloud service for Microsoft, on top of Office 365 and the new Xbox Cloud on Xbox One, pushing the company further into the cloud ecosystem.
Windows 9 rumored for next year, Windows 10 to be 'cloud OS' | Digital Trends

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    It's going that way, for $9.95 a month you get Cloud Based Adobe Photoshop now, so what's next?
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
      I think cloud-based services are a good idea, but I won't be using a totally cloud-based OS. I have no desire to trust all my business data to anyone. Especially anyone who makes themselves that big a target.

      If MS gos that route, I'll switch everything to Linux or the Mac.


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      • Profile picture of the author Cali16
        Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

        Especially anyone who makes themselves that big a target.
        Forgive my ignorance on this topic. Do you mean a target for hackers, Paul? (I've no idea how secure cloud-based services are....)
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        • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
          Forgive my ignorance on this topic. Do you mean a target for hackers, Paul?
          Yup. Give them that big a target, and they'll find a way in.


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          • Profile picture of the author Cam Connor
            Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

            Yup. Give them that big a target, and they'll find a way in.


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            I'm sure there'll still be ways to store your data either locally on your machine and/or through some other cloud storage service.
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            • Profile picture of the author seasoned
              Originally Posted by Cam Connor View Post

              I'm sure there'll still be ways to store your data either locally on your machine and/or through some other cloud storage service.
              ACTUALLY, storing the data ANYWHERE else is *****LESS***** private! The more computers/people involved, the LESS private it becomes. That has always been a GIVEN!

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    BINGO! I have been saying they want to do that for close to 5 years, if not more! *****STUPID****! Just what we need, a giant step BACKWARDS inand already less private world. THIS is like the companies that buy an open source product and take it private, except they buy the WORLD!

    I hope it FAILS, like with their FIRST attempt even their THIRD attempt, though it is apparently now very popular, called CHROMEBOOK BTW, has far more computing power than they wanted.

    The difference from the 60s, 79s, and very early 80s, when this idea was common place, was that THEN computers were expensive and seen as hard to use. ALSO, most hookups were usually with the less flexible serial.

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    • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      BINGO! I have been saying they want to do that for close to 5 years, if not more! *****STUPID****! Just what we need, a giant step BACKWARDS inand already less private world. THIS is like the companies that buy an open source product and take it private, except they buy the WORLD!

      I hope it FAILS, like with their FIRST attempt even their THIRD attempt, though it is apparently now very popular, called CHROMEBOOK BTW, has far more computing power than they wanted.

      The difference from the 60s, 79s, and very early 80s, when this idea was common place, was that THEN computers were expensive and seen as hard to use. ALSO, most hookups were usually with the less flexible serial.

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      I hope they fail too.

      In my opinion if they are successful, then it will most likely end the race
      for more personal computing power. Another words I think tablets and phones
      will get cheaper ... but real computers ... desktops, laptops, servers will skyrocket.

      In the last 10 years or so great strides have been made on just about every
      hardware level ... something like this might kill the forward momentum.
      altho some say moores law is already at its peak and cant continue anyway ...
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by kenmichaels View Post

        I hope they fail too.

        In my opinion if they are successful, then it will most likely end the race
        for more personal computing power. Another words I think tablets and phones
        will get cheaper ... but real computers ... desktops, laptops, servers will skyrocket.

        In the last 10 years or so great strides have been made on just about every
        hardware level ... something like this might kill the forward momentum.
        altho some say moores law is already at its peak and cant continue anyway ...
        moores law, with 1960s technology, in transistor count, hit its limit in about the mid 1980s, IIRC. IBM came up with a way to use other radiation to break through THAT limit. They used to use ultraviolet, but now they can't. As for the speed variant of the law, IT started to really hit its limit in like the late 1980s. Most computers before 1985 ran FULL BORE everywhere. Most SINCE HAVEN'T! TODAY, there is a core that runs at maybe 90% full speed on a subset of stored instructions and pulls from a core it is a part of and that pulls from a core outside of that, and it is NOWHERE NEAR the 90% inside. Anyway, THAT is why they speak of front side busses, memory speed, caches, cores, etc... If they have to build a computer that is faster than what they can build, they may increase the speed of the cache and add more cores, Each core may run slower than the desired speed, but they can split up the work. That slows down access to main memory, but that is one reason for the larger cache. Anyway, the maximum speed of any particular routine is going to be something less than the speed of the fastest cpu core.

        Larger computers aren't the answer though. They generally use those for MANY users, and that causes each user to see lower performance. It is like contracts I am on where I work late on a database system and tell people in the morning that things are going slower because the performance was ABYSMAL. They may look all over only to find someone was doing a backup, or running a huge query that burned up the resources.

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    No one will buy it and then they will bring out Windows 11 back to disk. Like Win8 debacle. lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    I think a hybrid cloud OS would be kinda cool. If I need more power for something I rarely do, off load it. I could see it working for some situations pretty good though if the cost low enough. Think computer labs for schools.

    Of course when the 'net is down, so is the cloud so a full cloud OS would be pretty bad.

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