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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If they aren't rich enough, then they are in the same boat as us. This ain't exactly new... AWS workspaces, Azure Cloud PCs, Google docs, office 365, one drive. The tech has been creeping it's way into businesses for the last 10 years. Obviously they are getting hammered right now by the raise in prices of new PCs. As the prices go up, they will have to make decisions.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    My job trialled azure cloud PCs a couple of years ago.

    It was pretty good from my point of view as a user.

    However the cost was higher than $8000 laptops we have, so we didn't adopt it.

    Wonder if it's still the same. Guessing the cloud is still suffering the same hardware price hike anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Yeah I get the feeling a lot of people don't understand how crazy expensive virtualized desktops are.

    You really don't go to it to save money. It's for standardization and security and it costs you. Then you're at the mercy of the company anyway. Just witness VMware now.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Running a comparison, assuming it's in use 8 hours a day 5 days a week, looks like a CPC runs around 640-760 a year (just googling quickly checking the numbers). course that's just basic hourly office computer, meant to be comparable to what normally would be normal office computer. Didn't bother to look and see what say an 8,000 high end graphics card laptop or something would compare... of course if your company was doing 8,000 laptops "a couple years ago", those are probably at least 15,000 laptops today.

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