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Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] 84 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Ah yes, it's around the time for thin clients of this cycle.

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  • [–] [S] 45 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    It's funny because we switched from thin clients to fat clients some 30-40 years back.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'm sure we did a cycle of network booting thin clients and windows terminal services about 10 or 15 years ago. 🤔

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I might have skipped that cycle. Local always.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Not if you’re an enterprise. I worked at a company where 80% of our workers (so over 2000) were on thin clients, even remotely. We could manage and upgrade the entire fleet easily from a single point. Ran the servers in house but were able to switch a portion to the cloud if we needed. We were doing that 20+ years ago.

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