Azure OS

With the huge success of Microsoft cloud, Microsoft should think to build chrome os alternative, where the OS should be build on Edge, support PWAs and have everything else run in the cloud. and sell it for free and opensource it.

Conversation 8 comments

  • Brad Sams

    Premium Member
    19 March, 2018 - 8:25 am

    <p>They had this, it was called Windows RT.</p>

    • Jules Wombat

      19 March, 2018 - 4:49 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#254410"><em>In reply to brad-sams:</em></a></blockquote><p>I don't perceive Windows RT as a web client, it was pretty heavy and ran version of classical Microsoft Office.</p><p>The suggestion here is to offer a totally web based client. Pretty smart option to offer. Microsoft would make business from the cloud services, which is where the real money is. The client platform OS is a commodity,that most users no longer value.</p>

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    19 March, 2018 - 8:51 am

    <p>Also, "sell it for free"? What does that even mean? :)</p>

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    19 March, 2018 - 11:40 am

    <p>The success of their cloud service does not translate into success for a desktop OS. That's like saying, "Hey, Texaco is really successful at selling gas to people who drive cars. Texaco should sell cars!"</p><p><br></p><p>Also, if you think they're going to release any part of their OS stack as OSS, you may have eaten the wrong brownies. ;)</p>

    • Jules Wombat

      19 March, 2018 - 4:52 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#254487"><em>In reply to jimchamplin:</em></a></blockquote><p>Like open sourcing their .Net stack. The suggestion is to open source the Edge web client. There is no value on the Client, the business value is from the cloud services.</p>

      • jimchamplin

        Premium Member
        19 March, 2018 - 7:02 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#254567"><em>In reply to Jules_Wombat:</em></a></blockquote><p>Is Microsoft really going to ever build an OS that isn't constructed on the Windows core at this point? Hell no. They could use Midori but that would be forward-looking, so they won't do that.</p><p><br></p><p>Seriously. </p>

  • Peter klobčič

    19 March, 2018 - 12:00 pm

    <p>My thought was, have something very stripped down, with extremely long battery life, and run all the heavy applications in the cloud, which RT didn't have plus now you will have 5G which will allow needed data transfer speed.</p><p><br></p>

    • jimchamplin

      Premium Member
      19 March, 2018 - 12:55 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#254493"><em>In reply to Peter_K:</em></a></blockquote><p>I think what you're describing is a thin client.</p>

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