Microsoft Windows is a common name when it comes to desktop operating systems. To use Microsoft Windows, you need to download the 'Media Creation Tool' from Microsoft's website and burn the ISO to a DVD or create a bootable USB drive right away, or you can just download the ISO and keep it locally for any future installations. The installation time may vary greatly according to your hardware. This is the official and most used method for installing Windows on your PC.
Problems for businesses and enterprises
Suppose you are a businessman or a business person who runs their own business. You depend on computers to a greater or less extent to run your business smoothly. But then you have many employees. It would be a very cumbersome task for you to install Windows on each computer and prepare each machine separately for use. You would have to set up each machine separately, install the drivers separately, install the apps separately, there might be different types of errors on different machines, and so on. You get my point. It is a headache.
What is Windows 365 and how does it solve problems?
This is where Windows 365 comes in. Microsoft launched Windows 365 on 14th July 2021. Windows 365 is a cloud-based installation of Windows 10 which you can use on any device, be it an android phone, an iPhone, a MacBook, a Windows PC, a Linux desktop, a Linux phone, an iPad, etc. The hardware specifications of the device in which you are using it do not matter. Why? Because it doesn't run on your machine. Windows 365 runs somewhere else on secure Microsoft servers and is just projected to the screen of your device. It is running in a remote secure server and the video output is showing on your screen, which you can control from your device.
That means that now a business owner does not have to have separate windows installations on every machine. They just need to purchase Windows 365 from any suitable plan according to their needs and run it on as many devices as the plan supports. One installation, running separately on multiple machines!
You can know more about Windows 365 and its different pricing plans from Microsoft's Official Website
Current Limitations of Windows 365
There are currently some limitations of Windows 365 -
As windows 365 is run from a cloud server and projected to your computer, there might be a significant latency delay between you giving the OS command and the OS executing the command, depending on the physical distance of the server from your device.
Windows 365 can run in two ways, either you run it in your browser, or you run it through the Remote Desktop app of Microsoft. It has been seen when it is running in the browser, the latency is significantly higher (more response delay) than when it is running in the Remote Desktop app, for the same distance between the server and your device.
Currently, GPUs are not supported in Windows 365. That means that your graphical tasks are also fully handled by the CPU. It puts extensive pressure on the systems and results in very high CPU usage and throttling. One thing is clear that Microsoft does not intend to use Windows 365 for graphics-intensive purposes, at least for now. Maybe they would decide to include GPUs in the future, who knows?
The last limitation is that the higher-end plans are a bit expensive and there is no plan which provides particularly high-end specifications.
Conclusion
Despite all the limitations, Windows 365 is a huge step forward in the relatively new field of cloud computing. We have to see it with a positive approach as it will surely get better and better over time. Always remember that Technology, like nature, is always evolving!
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