Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC

Reminds me at the time when the Uni at my library was a Sun shop and I had my own

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray

and a Sun server under my desk. We were hoping we could use Sun Rays instead of Windows for computers that patrons use to access the online catalog but after the collapse of Netscape 4 and before Mozilla rebranded as Firefox you could not get a modern web browser to build on Solaris.

That's a proprietary thin client, not a PC.

Why wouldn’t you just use a Raspberry Pi if you wanted a cloud terminal?

the title is a bit misleading... it's a thin client, not a full PC.

> personal computer

> stream from a server controlled by Microsoft

Choose one.

Also a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183829