Microsoft will hold a press conference on May 2. In addition to the long awaited Surface Pro5, it is likely to release another branch of the Windows system—— Windows 10 Cloud。 The most likely selling point of the latter is probably free, so as to occupy the education market that has been swallowed by Chromebook. The latter is a real cloud system, but its software is weak and relies heavily on the network, but its price is low. In 2016, it swallowed 58% of the foreign education market, while Microsoft's share in the same period was only 22%.

Although the new system has the meaning of cloud cloud in its name, except that the OneDrive synchronization function will strengthen and pre install the Office four piece suite (word, excel, PowerPoint, Onenote), it is essentially the same as other versions, and still can run the traditional programs of X86/X64, but it has an additional restriction - software can only be downloaded and installed in Microsoft's app store, Any program that is not on the shelf cannot be installed.

On April 22, the hardware requirements of the Windows 10 Cloud system were disclosed. It includes 4-core processor (Celeron or above)+4G memory+32G storage, 64 bit version requires 64G storage, battery capacity needs to be greater than 40Whr, high-speed eMMC flash memory or SSD is required, and touch pen and touch screen are optional. It hopes that the equipment can be used for 10 hours to persist in learning for one day.

Basically, it is the system version that requires more memory, storage and batteries, which is obviously aimed at directly benchmarking Google's Chromebook. As for whether it will really be free and promote the rise of Microsoft's official market, it will be announced by Microsoft on May 2.

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