Frances switchted to Linux on 2.5 million PCs

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[–] 26 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

Windows 365 is the "cloud PC" that Microsoft is hosting as a VM in Azure. So you have a thin client that only connects to the VM over the internet. It's very niche and pretty expensive. Regular windows licenses, especially with their volume of licensing will be a lot less. But they still save millions on licenses, especially for the M365 office licenses that they now no longer need.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    I'm seems pretty reasonable for a cloud PC.

    I just ran the costs through the Azure calculator, and a D2asV6 system with a 100GB drive and licenseing running 16hrs a day, 30 days a month would cost approximately 1200 dollars annually, so 99 bucks a year seems like a steal.

    And a D2asV6 is not a lot of compute power. 2 cores, 8Gb ram.

    In summary, Azure is fucking expensive if you are keeping VMs online all the time.

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