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Do you need Microsoft’s ‘Windows 365 Link’ cloud-only PC?
PUBLIC DEFENDER
By Brian Livingston
Information-technology pros are agog about the latest entry into the field of highly secure devices: Microsoft’s Windows 365 Link, a paperback-sized device that works as a PC only when connected via the Internet to Redmond’s cloud-computing service.
The Link has been called a mini-PC. But it’s more accurate to describe it as a thin client. This is the industry term for a small device that has no real computing power of its own. Instead, it displays applications and graphics that are sent to it from a cloud server.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.51.0, 2024-12-16).