Windows 10: Microsoft Could Launch Windows 9 as “Windows”

*Ditto

 

This can't look more fake than it does. I mean, if it was real, don't you think Microsoft's main Twitter account would Tweet about this one? Also, there's nobody from MS on list of followers either, not to mention the fact this account barely has any followers and it's been active for a couple of days now. On top of all that, it doesn't have that blue checkmark which would prove it's official. So yeah, my hope that new Windows will be called just like that, Windows, is not dead yet! *Biggrin

 

I always have to laugh at those "personal cloud" commercials... So you're really going to saturate your slow uplink? Most cable and dsl have 256Kbit uplink caps. Who wants to download your media at 256k?

The advantage of DropBox or OneDrive is that they have blazing fast bandwidth, so you get your data at the max speed your device can download it, not the max speed your home connection can upload it.

 

My download is 60MBps. Upload is 10MBps. Minimum. Who has 256k these days?











Who said I am sharing my cloud to the public? There's a reason why it's called personal cloud. I keep my own files on my own personal server. I didn't say I am sharing my files but I can if I want to. May Qnap NAS transcodes media files. You don't have to download the file. You can watch videos or listen to music via online streaming direct from my NAS. You have to have one to know what you are talking about.

Of course Dropbox or OneDrive needs "blazing fast" bandwidth They have millions of users. Just imagine the traffic. You may not be enjoying that blazing fast speed at all.





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Shhhh! Don't give Nadella any more ideas; he used to be in charge of cloud development.

 

There are ways to be safe in the cloud. My issue with it is most people don't have access to reliable, affordable, reasonably fast broadband internet. Many of those don't have internet access, period. Mobile internet is still slow and expensive. Cloud computing is simply not ready for prime time and won't be for many years (not that that will stop companies from diving into it head first).

 

That is true of all backup media. If one's data doesn't exist in three places, it's not safe (and two backups in the same place don't count, especially if kept near or, worse, continuously connected to the computer). A good (which leaves out freebies) cloud backup service is an easy way to maintain an up-to-date offsite backup as long as one also keeps an identical backup onsite.

Another excellent reason to have cloud backups. There are ways to ensure they are secure.

 

Chromebooks are pretty much completely cloud based. Lose your connection and you are severely crippled.

 

Well, just install Linux and you'll be fine. *Wink

But make sure you have an Intel processor before you try to install Linux.

 

I've used Linux Mint on an AMD CPU and it's works just fine.

 

Yes, it will work fine on an AMD CPU, that's what I use. But on Chromebooks you can only choose from Intel and some Samsung thingy. I don't think they have put AMD in them yet. *Sad

 

From what I hear, chromebooks are completely useless without internet connection. My point was just that, when people hear about using the cloud, they think chromebook. I think more like, how when I use a desktop at school, I can just log into outlook.com to access my onedrive files, and if the computer doesn't have a recent version of office, I can use the online version. I can then save the file, walk to my professor's office, pull up the document on my phone, and ask them a question about it. If I don't have an internet connection, I still have the file sync'd to my laptop, and OneDrive on iOS keeps a local version of last few documents you opened. I can't remember the exact number.

Of course, I could just do everything on my laptop, but its 17" laptop which is annoying to try to hold while pointing to something on the screen and talking to the professor. I also don't always want to carry it to school with me.

 

Ah, now I see your point. *Smile

However, I can pull up my OnDrive account on any computer via a web browser. All I have to do is sign in on the website.

 

Yes, when I said by logging into outlook.com, I meant doing it in a web browser on the computer. I just typically log into my email, then use the link at the top of the page to go to my OneDrive, rather than directly to onedrive.live.com.

Right now I have somewhere around 170GB of stuff on there. I have a couple hundred GB of more stuff I am considering uploading as well (I have 1TB of space on there thanks to a Office 365 subscription).