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Ugh, when will they learn.

I actively DO NOT WANT this stuff.

* Not 'I want something else they haven't built yet and this is irrelevant'. * Not 'I don't understand this and just want something they think it already does'.

I mean: the entire concept of a universal Cloud account sharing an 'experience' across multiple devices is something I will gladly pay to avoid, as will the majority of people I know who aren't in IT (and can't necessarily afford the time/money/attention it takes to get away from this shit these days).

The people pushing this shit are either stupid or malicious, and either way they need to be removed from any position of control as soon as possible.

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I thinks you are not the targeted user for this kind of application. I have worked as a contractor in countless companies where they don't want to give the contractor a laptop and instead give a remote desktop like a VMware horizon or Citrix workspace. This application competes with those applications. Now you can give an offshore contractor access to specific applications in a few hours with minimal setup and single sign on using your office 365 account.

> Ugh, when will they learn.

Let's admit it: they don't have you (or me) in mind!

It's not that they have to learn; why would they care about you (or me)? I'm not a fan of their products but they are certainly free to focus to whatever costumer group they see fit. It's not like nowadays there aren't alternatives to windows.

> universal Cloud account sharing an 'experience' across multiple devices is something I will gladly pay to avoid

Are you objecting to the idea of having a more seamless experience across your devices in general, or the fact that typical implementations of that idea mean giving your data to a cloud provider, for 'sync' and 'backup' purposes?

If I divide your comment down this line, I agree with you that I don't want anything to do with any of the OSes that do this today, including this one from Microsoft; however, I think it would be great to have a way to seamlessly sync and access my data across devices if it doesn't rely on any external infrastructure (whether p2p, self hosted, etc).

"Seamless sync" is something I personally want to avoid. I want seams and barriers and hoops to jump through. There are reasons to have different things on different machines, and the reasons I have are pretty trivial as these things go.

Ok but that seems like a pretty niche need. I need all my music, movies and pdfs to be in all 3 of my computers. That seems like something one would need more than that.

> The people pushing this shit are either stupid or malicious, and either way they need to be removed from any position of control as soon as possible.

Uh, no.

If people want this sort of experience, it should be available to those who do want it. Those people should seek objective information about what they are buying into in order to make an informed decision. I am concerned that it may lead to a world where these services are pushed onto people who do not want them. Yet there is nothing wrong intrinsically wrong with people deciding to use something that you and I may find distasteful.

This is a pretty bold stance to take on this specific product. More people want a seamless experience moving from device-to-device than not.

Yeah, iCloud is really nice. It very neatly solves the how to I get thing on phone to computer problem for files and more. MS would be losing if they didn’t have an answer.

But since this is a business service it’s gonna be a replacement for roaming profiles which is a godsend.

Windows is literally the last consumer OS to get on this train. Seems they have learned. From their competitors.

How do I do this with MacOS?

There appear to be several options, but here is one just as an example:

https://www.macincloud.com/

I'm confused. If that counts as an option for Mac OS, surely, well, pretty much any Windows server option out there, like AWS, whatever VPS service that offers Windows counts as well?

That's not first-party.

The problem is, even if you don't want it, your employer might.

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