[BluePen8]

I'm excited for this, my wife is an accountant and often asks me to help her with VBA macros.

Which means that for this reason alone I have to dedicate 40GB of my laptop's hard drive to a Windows partition with office, adobe, and other stuff installed.

And if she's not physically near me, I have no way of getting the script to her with any guarantee it'll behave the same or work at all on her work computer.

Having worked within unix for so long, I'd started taking it for granted how everything is either portable, or can be easily containerized, Windows and accompanying products are incredibly environment finicky and janky overall.

To be able to just do the remote version of "handing over the laptop" will be a godsend.

[porker]

> with office, adobe, and other stuff installed.

It will be interesting to see if Adobe's activation/licensing copes with this, or every time you log in the software needs a new activation as it detects the underlying machine is different.

[Kosirich]

I'm excited for this, my wife is an accountant and often asks me to help her with VBA macros. I like that someone else had the same working from home experience as I did...aka "can you come look at this form for me, some macro isn't running". I wonder what is the overall percentage of VB macros written, especially in big corporation, by other people than the stated file owners.

[movedx]

Like using, say, an AWS Workspace?

This isn't new, I don't believe.

[dboreham]

Citrix existed in the 90s

[pwarner]

I hope they open it to consumers soon. I need a personal VDI to keep personal stuff off my work laptop. AWS workspaces is OK, but they seem to charge for the directory now, so it's kinda expensive

[cptskippy]

40GB seems cramped for a Windows install, I usually do 80-100GB boot drives.

That being said Windows will happily exist as a VM, issues only arise when you need a dedicated GPU or OpenGL.

[booi]

since it's gotta be shared with, i assume a mac or linux VM, he's probably trying to cut it as close as possible