Last year, Microsoft unveiled its first Windows desktop mini PC, except it's not your typical mini PC. It's a thin client, designed to run Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud. Locally, the device runs a super lightweight version of Windows, which is designed solely to connect the user to a Windows 365 PC as set up by an employer in the cloud.
The device is called the Windows 365 Link, and is supposed to be the first of a new category of Windows 365 PCs. Microsoft is slowly ushering in a new category of Windows PCs that don't actually run Windows apps, and instead stream the Windows experience via the internet and remote desktop protocol.
