Windows 8 prepared to run from diskless PCs

[pctech]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/12/windows_8_install_options/

[Rik]

Next, they plan to abandon the need for a monitor.

[Steve]

Leaving 'Windows to go' aside aren't the uses somewhat limited?     ie corrupt internal HDD.

[Rik]

Good for business networks, perhaps, Steve?

[gizmo71]

Leaving 'Windows to go' aside aren't the uses somewhat limited?     ie corrupt internal HDD.

It could be very useful in a corporate setting with virtualized desktops, running everything off the network with no local storage at all. A bit like Unix and friends have been able to do for more than two decades...

[pctech]

When I started at secondary school they had diskless PCs, running Win 3.1 via a remote boot ROM.

Took ages to log on.

But then again they were 386s.

[cavillas]

When I was at school our computers were cpu-less, hard-drive less, no keyboard and no monitor.  They consisted of log tables , slide rules , paper, pen and brain. They wer networked by our teachers.

[Glenn]

You're going to tell me you had to use common sense next. 

[Lance]

What's that?

[Rik]

Extinct?