On July 15, Microsoft officially released Windows 365, the cloud PC service. It is similar to the cloud computer/virtual host service that you have heard before, but this time the provider is Microsoft. In the future, it will not be a problem for iPad and mobile phone to "run" Win 11.

Similar to Office 365, Windows 365 is a Win 10 virtual machine that can be used on the browser (Microsoft promises to upgrade to Win 11 later). The official concept is "Windows Anywhere". Microsoft claims to provide "instant startup experience". Traffic and data are encrypted.

Microsoft provides different virtual host configurations from "single core virtual CPU+2GB memory+64GB storage" to "eight core virtual CPU+32GB memory+512GB storage". The Windows 365 service will start on August 2, but the specific price is not announced.

Microsoft said that modern browsers for Mac, iPad, Linux, Android and other devices can support Windows 365. Of course, even the office synchronization function is Schrodinger status in China, and Windows 365 is definitely not available for the time being.

The advantage of cloud computers is that they have low performance requirements for local computing devices. All data is in the cloud, and there is no need to synchronize settings and data between multiple devices. But correspondingly, all used documents, pictures and video data must be uploaded to the cloud first. If the online disk is cloud based, the cloud computer is cloud based even the operating system.

Now that the network speed is generally improving, Microsoft's Windows 365 cloud service does not have a high technical threshold. After all, the mainframe era before ancient times was also a virtual machine in essence. Huawei has provided cloud computer services since 2018, and also runs Windows.

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