> especially in the light that end users shall not have the privileges to install local apps

So it's a way to lock users into the MS cloud ecosystem even more than normal Windows... How nice.

> its design, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Apple Mac Mini.

I followed the link and they look nothing alike, unless this is the first time the author is seeing a mini pc. Otherwise it looks like a, surprise, mini pc.

The 1990s called, they want their X terminals back.

It sounds like basically the same thing: a screen, keyboard and mouse that displays windows for apps running on a remote server.

Another step toward modern dumb terminals, now "thin clients" of the mainframe, now "the cloud", where a handful of giants own anything and the others nothing, not even understanding this. A name? Ah, yes, 2030's Agenda or an old book I suggest to anyone The Science Of Government, Founded On Natural Law, by Clinton Roosevelt also available in pdf https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/sciencegovernme00roo...

I suggest https://kfx.fr/articles/2024-04-26-onnewdealexp-contrapolis/ and really starting to think about where we are going and where we could go. We could go in a distributed society, resilient like the Internet, spread like Usenet, desktop-computing and homelabs as the norms, where companies who needs more own a shed or more with some racks, p.v. and storage to ensure stable power, FTTH and emergency radio (4G/5G and LEO sat access) full of very dynamic SMEs or a set of large internment camps named smart cities full of inmates and no innovation nor dynamism till the obvious collapse.

BTW that's NOT a political vision but a technical one, because the cloud model will end up there technically anyway.

Is it the thin client part of the cycle already? I though we were still living in the middle of thick client times.

$349 for a terrible thinclient

Will Windows 365 support color managed workflows and chroma 4:4:4? Because RDP does not.

Since this thing only has to connect to some Windows 365 instance in the cloud, the device itself has no need to run Windows. I bet it runs some locked down flavour of Linux instead, similar to SteamOS or LibreELEC.

Not the worst idea or design but it's too expensive for a thin client.

A computer without a fan. Worked well for the Apple 3.