Posted By: Az4x4
'Windows' desktop is about to change - forever.. - 07/30/18 02:41 PM
For 3 decades and more the PCs people have used have been primarily Windows machines, computers they owned and personally controlled. That’s about to change. Forever.
This isn’t about Microsoft pushing people from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 as fast as it can. It has found ways to do that already. This is about Microsoft preparing to move away from Windows 10 as a conventional PC desktop and replace it with what they’ll call “Microsoft Managed Desktop,” a “desktop-as-a-service” (DaaS) they'll soon offer. Instead of controlling your PC’s installation of Windows 10, you’ll “rent” Windows desktop-as-a-service on your PC month to month.
“Microsoft Managed Desktop” will be game changing approach to what the PC desktop has always been. Once you’ve signed up for the service Microsoft will install the bulk of its new DaaS operating system on your PC, but you won’t be in charge of it. It will be automatically controlled and patched in whatever way Microsoft deems necessary. Once signed up for this soon to be available 'service' you’ll no longer have any say in what Microsoft does with your PC's operating system.
Maybe you’ll be OK with that. Maybe not.