[oldpersonintx]

one more step to a fully-rented, all-in-the-cloud business "PC"

security is easy because you aren't running anything locally, can't save anything locally, probably can't even do true copy/paste

when they want to fire you, the client reboots and you have nothing from your job accessible anymore

and you wonder why Microsoft is so busy building hundreds of Azure datacenters...

[twoodfin]

Kind of funny that the network computer/thin client vision that 30 years ago was trying to break Microsoft’s stranglehold on the app platform is now being embraced as the future of the Windows experience!

[pferde]

We've had this at the uni twenty years ago, in form of thin Linux workstations, connecting over XDMCP to a central server which served individual desktop sessions over the network.