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>I should be excited for something like this. I don't want to devote a computer to frickin' Windows, especially not a powerful one. If I need Windows occasionally, being able to spin it up, do what I need, then shut it down and forget about it.

VMs are perfect for that. Why would you want an inferior (slower etc.) version with all your data on MS's servers?

I hear you, this might be a privacy nightmare, and I am not sure that the public at large cares a great deal about it, if it means supercheap computers that only have to login basically.

And the subscription is another headache since if you depend on it, they can set any price.

How is this any different than my using my own AWS Account and spinning up an EC2 Windows instance in a pinch like I’ve done before?

(Yes I’m self aware enough to know that this might end up being my BrandonM moment)

Too much work, and you have to pay. Why not just install it on local VM?

I have an ARM Mac, I want the performance of a native x86 computer, and I don’t have to share my 24GB of RAM with the VM.

And we are talking about a a quarter an hour for a 4 vCPU 16GB instance.

It’s a simple bash script to start up the instance and start session manager system manager to create a no ingress tunnel to the instance to run RDP over

https://awscloudsecvirtualevent.com/workshops/module1/rdp/