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First Look Microsoft has revealed the full range of options and pricing for its Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and
The Register is not impressed – on price or performance.
Your humble hack signed up for the base level of the service: a $20/month Cloud PC with a single virtual CPU, 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The signup process was not slick, produced some 404 errors as admin pages failed to load, and took more than 30 minutes to spawn a cloudy computer.
Once the ethereal PC started running, performance in a browser was decidedly laggy when running under Windows 10 Pro on a 2019-vintage Lenovo X1 Carbon with 8GB of RAM and a quad-core Corei5-8250U CPU at 1.60GHz. We connected to the Microsoft cloud over consumer-grade internet service rated to 100Mbit/sec download speeds and on a wired ethernet connection interfacing to the Lenovo through a USB-C dongle.
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The Chinese cloud leader has dribbled out information about the service in recent weeks.
The Register has learned that the service offers clients for Windows and MacOS, and that those clients permit USB redirection so that peripherals connected to the remote machine are accessible to the cloudy desktop.
Alibaba says “Data is stored in the cloud rather than on local clients, and is displayed only as pixels by using encrypted remote protocols.” Which is pretty standard for remote desktops.
Pre-paid options will be available, but the service will also be offered on-demand with bills “accurate to the second and generated by hour.”