<story><title>Amazon WorkSpaces</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>And IT departments that don&amp;#x27;t want company data to ever exist on the laptops.  We&amp;#x27;re back to dumb terminals and mainframes.</text></item><item><author>Touche</author><text>This is going to be big for Chromebooks, I suspect.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve scratched my head on what exactly the use-case for this is. I&amp;#x27;m going to need a computer of some sort to access my remote &lt;i&gt;anyways&lt;/i&gt;. So what&amp;#x27;s the point?&lt;p&gt;Then I remember the remote freelance job my wife had for a while. They mailed her the employment paperwork, she filled it out, once they processed it they sent her a remote desktop URL, username and password and voila she was &amp;quot;at work&amp;quot;. A day or two later she had everything she needed installed by the IT staff and off she went. She never actually went into the office, even once, and never met any of the employees there face-to-face. When she completed her contract they simply nuked the account she was using and reclaimed the licenses. They didn&amp;#x27;t ship her a laptop to work from and she didn&amp;#x27;t have to ship it back. If she had ever needed to go into the office, they could have let her use an aging extra machine with Remote Desktop to get back to work. Not a single piece of the company&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;property&amp;quot; ever needed to come in contact with my wife&amp;#x27;s home computer and if she was waiting for her work computer to do something she could just minimize the RDP client and do something else.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what they would have been paying for the Terminal server on their end, I&amp;#x27;ve heard it runs north of $100k&amp;#x2F;year, and this service seems to be competing with &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>Mainframes?&lt;p&gt;Dumb Terminals are great for working environments and we should have never left them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon WorkSpaces</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>And IT departments that don&amp;#x27;t want company data to ever exist on the laptops.  We&amp;#x27;re back to dumb terminals and mainframes.</text></item><item><author>Touche</author><text>This is going to be big for Chromebooks, I suspect.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve scratched my head on what exactly the use-case for this is. I&amp;#x27;m going to need a computer of some sort to access my remote &lt;i&gt;anyways&lt;/i&gt;. So what&amp;#x27;s the point?&lt;p&gt;Then I remember the remote freelance job my wife had for a while. They mailed her the employment paperwork, she filled it out, once they processed it they sent her a remote desktop URL, username and password and voila she was &amp;quot;at work&amp;quot;. A day or two later she had everything she needed installed by the IT staff and off she went. She never actually went into the office, even once, and never met any of the employees there face-to-face. When she completed her contract they simply nuked the account she was using and reclaimed the licenses. They didn&amp;#x27;t ship her a laptop to work from and she didn&amp;#x27;t have to ship it back. If she had ever needed to go into the office, they could have let her use an aging extra machine with Remote Desktop to get back to work. Not a single piece of the company&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;property&amp;quot; ever needed to come in contact with my wife&amp;#x27;s home computer and if she was waiting for her work computer to do something she could just minimize the RDP client and do something else.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what they would have been paying for the Terminal server on their end, I&amp;#x27;ve heard it runs north of $100k&amp;#x2F;year, and this service seems to be competing with &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinclontarf</author><text>Except this time the mainframe is &amp;quot;The Cloud&amp;quot;, and there are graphics, so fast internet connectivity is going to be even more essential.</text></comment>