Microsoft’s PC-in-the-cloud service will offer users an instant-on boot experience and a consistent UI irrespective of the hardware platform. In the case of Windows 365, users will be able to access a cloud PC on a wide range of devices such as PC, iPad, Mac, Android phones, and soon on Linux machines too. Think of it in the same vein as the xCloud gaming service, which uses Xbox hardware at a remote server location, but all that graphics processing power is provided to users via a browser or app on a phone or PC to play games. For those unaware of the concept, Microsoft will rent a Windows 10 ( or Windows 11) cloud PC that can be accessed via a web browser. Microsoftlaunched its cloud-PC-for-rent service called Windows 365 last week, but the demand has apparently been so high that the company had to shut down access to the free trial.
