lordkekz

You're right. It's still stupid though.

Companies should be at least as concerned with privacy and autonomy as individuals. Running everything on Microsoft Clouds, with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office makes you massively vulnerable to the whims of Microsoft. And many of the potential customers are actually Microsoft's competitors on some level.

Thin clients may be a good model for some businesses, but this device particularly seems to be tailored to use only Microsoft's Azure cloud as opposed to self-hosting. Moving the computation to Microsoft's cloud doesn't make it inherently safer.

Sure, let's just move your personal desktop to someone else's computer where you don't even own the data. What could possibly go wrong?

I also have these concerns. It's really hard for consumers to tell where products come from and who actuslly makes them. We need a lot more supply chain transparency.

I think there's an EU law requiring some larger companies to explain their suppliers to prevent things like forced labor even outside the EU. But I think it doesn't nearly go far enough while also not providing an efficient digital path to verify supply chains, thus causing bureaucratic overhead and disadvantaging smaller businesses.