Microsoft has uncanned its desktop-a-service, giving mobile users a preview edition of Windows apps on the go. The software giant yesterday announced the pilot of Azure RemoteApp, previously codenamed Mohoro. It was announced in a slew of news from at the company's TechEd North America conference in Houston, Texas. The Azure …

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Tuesday 13th May 2014 10:52 GMT Anonymous Custard

Microsoft unveils Windows-as-a-service

Microsoft unveils Windows-as-a-service

As opposed to Windows-as-a-punishment or Windows-as-an-ordeal?

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Tuesday 13th May 2014 11:46 GMT The BigYin

Three new offerings from MS

VaaS - Virus as a Service;

RaaS - Reboot as a Service; and

FaaS - Frustration as a Service (this is Win8 based after all)

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1. Tuesday 13th May 2014 11:47 GMT dogged
  
  Re: Three new offerings from MS
  
  All of these are already offered by Adobe and Oracle are competing heavily with them via Java. I think that particular market's too packed for Microsoft.
  
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  1. Tuesday 13th May 2014 13:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: Three new offerings from MS
    
    And Android - which also adds Spyware as a Service
    
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    1. Tuesday 13th May 2014 16:04 GMT The BigYin
      
      Re: Three new offerings from MS
      
      > And Android - which also adds Spyware as a Service
      
      Because Windows never, ever, ever did tha....wait a minute! (Phone home)
      
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2. Tuesday 13th May 2014 12:43 GMT John P
  
  Re: Three new offerings from MS
  
  It's actually based on Server 2012 (not 2008 as the article suggested) and from the demo at TechEd, you don't see any of the OS, just the app itself, so the OS is not even a factor here I think.
  
  It looks interesting, I'll wait to hear how much it costs before getting too excited...
  
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  1. Wednesday 14th May 2014 06:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Angles
    
    Price will be a factor as I can slice-it & dice-it here. What caught my eye was the reference to RemoteFX which is the single most painful to provision on the host side. If I can get some sort of workstation to rent going... tie that to a render/compute farm ... could be interesting.
    
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Tuesday 13th May 2014 12:51 GMT Blue eyed boy

Should the title have been

Windows as a *chargeable* service?

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Tuesday 13th May 2014 14:10 GMT John__Doh

Windows Server 2008?

I don't get it, is the article trying to say that this is deployed on Windows Server 2008? At the very least surely they'd go 2008 R2 like every other sane person who works in a windows shop? I'm surprised they're not using some highly customised version of 2012 R2?

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1. Tuesday 13th May 2014 15:15 GMT dogged
  
  Re: Windows Server 2008?
  
  The article says Amazon use Win2K8, not Microsoft. I believe MS are using Win2K12 R2.
  
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Tuesday 13th May 2014 23:55 GMT SVV

Wht didn't I go for a career in marketing......

.... instead of all this complex IT stuff?

Introducing BAAS

Bullshit as a Service

cloud, mobile, remote, management utilities, virtual, cloud, productivity suite, tools, empowering, cloud, connectivity, flexibility, clod, sorry cloud, just move all these post-it's around the whiteboard, press release, story in the press.............

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