![]() ![]() If you go along with this, as any poor sod working in Venezuela with Adobe products can tell you, you’re asking for pure misery.The Microsoft Remote Desktop client is used to connect to Azure Virtual Desktop to access your desktops and applications. Ultimately, I want computing power to be in my hands, not Microsoft’s or any other company’s. I wouldn’t count on it staying around for long. So there will still be a home desktop version of Windows, for now. Well-known Windows author Ed Bott told me that, while he doesn’t think we’ll see consumers relegated to Windows as a service anytime soon, “for enterprises, absolutely.” I wouldn’t be thrilled if I were a sysadmin and my users bypassed my Active Directory Windows logins with an Azure-based login.īut, like it or not, Microsoft wants you to give up your standalone PC operating system for its centralized cloud-based operating system. As someone who cares a wee bit about my privacy, I’m not happy. And that is another thing making it crystal clear that Microsoft wants you to log in to Windows with a cloud-based ID and password. There’s nothing intuitive about either of these approaches. To get it, you need to either run setup without being connected to the internet, or type in a fake phone number until your new Windows 10 installation gives you a prompt to create a local account. It’s still there, but if you’re connected to the internet - and who isn’t? - it’s hidden. It relented a bit with the May 2019 release, but now it’s a pain in the rump again to set up a local Windows account. Microsoft started making it harder to use a local PC-based account with the October 2018 update. You know, the one with just a username and password that you’ve been using since Windows 1.0 rolled off the production line in 1985. In its latest updates, Microsoft has made it much harder to create an offline local account. But the PC as a standalone platform? It’s on its way out. Chromebook, Mac, Linux PC - it’s all good now. With WVD, Microsoft doesn’t care if you run Windows on your PC anymore. The old argument against the non-Windows alternatives ran something like this: “Oh, I could never use a because it doesn’t run my favorite Windows-only program.” Did you read what I said earlier? You can run your Windows apps via WVD on a ChromeOS, Linux or macOS now. Microsoft, which has also made no bones about wanting you to move to Office 365 instead of upgrading to Office 2019, has also optimized it for use with its business-oriented Office 365 ProPlus.Īnother interesting thing about this change is Microsoft doesn’t care anymore if you use desktop Windows. And WVD is really the only way to run real Windows 10 clients, multiuser, in the public cloud.” As Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Microsoft 365, said, “Companies want to move this to the cloud. This isn’t that, but it does mean you don’t need Windows to run, well, Windows. What was it I said last month? Oh yeah, maybe Microsoft would replace the Windows NT kernel underneath Windows with Linux. Moreover, Microsoft says - brace yourself - you can run WVD on Chrome OS, macOS and Linux. Specifically, you can run WVD on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer (but, please, in the name of all security, don’t!) and Safari. The last means that you can run Windows on most popular desktop browsers. The WVD client app is available, as of now, not just on Windows, but also on Android, Mac, iOS and HTML 5. ![]()
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