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    From Retrograde@fungus@amongus.com.invalid to comp.misc on Sun Mar 1 17:25:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    From the «hope I get to pay more» department:
    Title: NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs
    Author: Simon Sharwood
    Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:53:12 +0000
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/microsoft_dell_asus_windows_365/

    Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun

    Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into
    its Windows 365 cloud PCs.…
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Sun Mar 1 21:34:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 01 Mar 2026 17:25:17 GMT, Retrograde wrote:

    From the «hope I get to pay more» department: Title: NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs ...

    Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun

    Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot
    into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.…

    Do any of these use ARM chips? It seems to me they would be a natural
    for this sort of application.
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  • From kludge@kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) to comp.misc on Thu Mar 5 19:29:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On 01 Mar 2026 17:25:17 GMT, Retrograde wrote:

    From the «hope I get to pay more» department: Title: NUC, NUC! Who’s
    there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs ...

    Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun

    Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot
    into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.…

    Do any of these use ARM chips? It seems to me they would be a natural
    for this sort of application.

    The NUC started out as an Intel reference design... they made them as evaluation devices for people building laptops but then they became a
    popular item of themselves, and then more recently Intel sold the line
    to Asus because it had become so popular.

    So, historically no, and the current NUCs are still following the Intel reference designs, but Asus may be interested in the future in a
    similar ARM device line.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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