Windows 365 — Microsoft’s cloud-based OS explained

Microsoft last week introduced Windows 365, a new service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers.Rather than provide only the operating system or the OS and bits of other software — notably productivity applications in the form of Office — Microsoft will soon also serve up ersatz hardware, virtual machines running on its vast cloud of Azure servers.Dubbed "desktop as a service" (DaaS, in keeping with other, similar acron