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Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud (www.theregister.com)

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The Windows 365 Link is a small black box that connects over the internet to a Windows 365 Cloud PC running in the Azure cloud. Microsoft has priced it at $349 (£349), and its real utility is to those fully invested in Microsoft's cloudy vision.

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

They are (can be) cheap. Dependent on whatever remote desktop service you use, though.

For simple office work, you don't really need much to stand up a set of thin clients other than a good network and peripheral hardware.

A Dell thin client goes for like $300-500 while a full desktop is $1000-1500 from them (actual prices may vary by company contract), so it's typically less upfront cost, especially if your company is already using a remote desktop service.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

The remote desktop aspect is nice in a few ways, can use whatever thin client and all your stuff is there, but you lose out on stuff like GPU acceleration and at least where I worked where we mainly used thin clients, can be very laggy compared to native.