[murphyslaw]

> I wanted a cloud based desktop, with your personal encrytped access key being your phone

Sun used to have a desktop product similar to this, it worked with an authentication token like a company badge or whatever. You could go sit at any desk and login and you'd have your own desktop environment including audio.

Of course the whole thing was proprietary and it was server side so you needed heavy servers. Also logging in remotely wasn't possible IIRC cause it required a huge network pipe (aka on-premises). It died a quiet death.

[samstave]

Yeah, I recall those -- was that the invention of "zero desktop" nomenclature - even though a terminal to a mainframe/AS\400 was the same thing :-) (or a vax (never used a vax)