- Today we are running Windows 10 on things
you should not run Windows 10 on, including old systems,
phones, Macs, iPads, so cast your mind wide open
to the most obscure, bizarre thing you could possibly
imagine running Windows, and we're gonna do it today.
Why'd I just jump on the desk?
I'm not sure, but it felt right.
Microsoft just released Windows 365,
which allows you to run your own dedicated Windows 10 PC
in the cloud on literally anything that has a web browser,
so let's put that to the test.
I started out by signing up for the higher tier
at a pretty expensive $66 a month,
which comes with four CPU cores,
16 gigs of RAM, and 128 gigs of storage,
although realistically, you can get up and running
for close to $20 a month for a lower-spec machine.
To start out with, the first device that I would love
to run Windows 10 on is the iPad.
For the best results, Microsoft recommends
using the Remote Desktop client.
Now, this is something that you could use
with your own PC, right?
If you have, I believe, Windows 10 Pro,
pretty much any PC can log in, and you can use it
on a Mac or whatever, but what we can use it for
is accessing our Windows 365 app in the cloud.
So the advantage to using the Remote Desktop client,
first of all, as you can see, it's actually properly scaled.
You also have pretty much full support
for everything on the iPad.
So I can use the touchscreen on Windows, right.
The cursor is pretty damn smooth.
(Austin gasping)
The camera works! What?
Are you kidding me?
Wait, wait, wait, you gotta see this.
I mean, there's mad latency, of course.
(host whooshes)
Okay, okay, okay, sorry, sorry, I was not expecting that.
So I think we're gonna try a bunch a devices,
but the gist of it, I think, is if you have
a regular desktop web browser, it will work fairly well,
but if you can get access to the Remote Desktop app,
you're gonna have a much better experience
accessing your Windows 365 device.
(suspenseful music)
So I have installed the Remote Desktop app on my Z Flip.
So let's just see what happens when I launch it.
Configuring, and oh, my God, it works!
Not only does it work, it just changed over
to the Z Flip's aspect ratio.
Oh, wow! Yo, whoa, whoa, yo, whoa.
Wait, this is actually not terrible.
Anywhere you place it on the screen,
it just moves the cursor.
It just doesn't stop!
No matter what device I throw at it,
it's just like, "Yeah, sure, no problem."
Oh, my God! Oh, my God! This is so dumb.
This is so dumb, but look at my Windows Z Flip, boys!
Come on! Come on.
This is a video which is pure fun,
pure delight, pure entertainment.
What can we try next?
(title smacking) So we've got a Core i7.
I believe that's a first or second-gen Core i7.
Four gigs of RAM, HD 3000 graphics.
I mean, this is not anything all that impressive.
Now, I specifically picked this
because it is too old to use at least the version
on the App Store that we would normally use
of the Remote Desktop software,
so I'm gonna try to just load up in Safari
Windows365.com and see if it works.
Now, I'm gonna do this on Wi-Fi.
This MacBook does have ethernet.
That would probably slightly improve our performance,
but I wanna try to keep it somewhat realistic.
All right, let's see what kinda speeds
that the Microsoft server has on the other end.
- [Kenneth] There are servers in Washington.
- [Austin] It is. All right, ready, and- (laughs)
- [Kenneth] We could stream off that.
- Yeah, you think, you think, you think.
Wait, wait, wait, let's see the upload.
Let's see the upload. Come on, come on, come on.
Hit me. Hit me! (hands clapping)
We got that big, that big, oh, eh, oh!
Oh, it's going. - Oh, wow!
- It's going. It's going. - Oh, my God!
- It's going! It's going!
Let's (gasps) go, boys!
Yo, 1,400 megabits, 1.4 gigabits down, and 2.7 gigabits up.
I can use that crazy-fast upload
to dump files to it and pull it down on my local device.
Right, obviously, to get something on this device itself,
I need a good internet connection,
but if I'm saving stuff to the cloud,
I've got almost three gigabits upload. Whoo!
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo! (hands clapping)
This actually works really well.
Again, this is an old version of Safari.
We're several generations behind,
and I would say the performance and the actual,
like, look, I've got two fingers scrolling here.
Look how, like, that's maybe a third of a second latency.
I figured that the Remote Desktop app
on something like the iPad or even on the Z Flip
would be the best scenario, but I mean, that's super-smooth.
What, what's that?
Why'd you bring a Chromebook? (computer clattering)
If it works on an old 2011 MacBook
with an out-of-date version of Safari,
it's gonna work on a Chromebook!
- [Kenneth] We can make it a real computer!
- Chrome OS is a real thing!
- [Kenneth] No, it's not!
- It is absolutely a thing.
- [Kenneth] Stop tricking our audience
into thinking that these things are useful.
(air whooshing)
- So I have got (title smacking)
this old ThinkPad, which is legitimately had been sitting
around for, oh, God, ah, (flutters lips) three years?
This is a Core 2 Duo system, and I got it
because I originally wanted to do a video
because this is one of the oldest systems
that I could buy that would support Windows 10.
So for context, this is a system with a Core 2 Duo T9400.
We've got ourselves four gigs of RAM,
and we've got ourselves a 112 gig-
I think it's a hard drive, actually.
I don't even think there's an SSD in here.
Should we just fire it up in Edge and see what happens?
Now, I will say that this has got the old version
of Edge because I have not touched this system
in, like, several years. - Oh, so not Chrome?
- So non-Chromium Edge, but hey, we're gonna try old stuff.
Let's try old stuff, shall we?
Activate, and
look at that!
We're back in there!
I will say the quality looks significantly worse.
Like, you could just see it's kind blurry.
Okay, that's a lot worse, so maybe we're hitting the limits
for what this Core 2 Duo can handle.
So that's about the smallest window we can get.
Is this gonna work better?
Oh, it is, actually.
- [Kenneth] Yeah, 'cause it's a lesser
resolution video, right? - Yeah!
- So... - Interesting!
Okay, so you can get this usable even on,
I would say, ridiculously outdated hardware.
I think we've pretty well established
that the Windows 365 and the Remote Desktop,
it's pretty good.
It works on a lotta devices, but I don't think
we can just go old with it.
I don't think we can just go outdated with it.
I think we should take a little look over at truly
the most budget, bargain basement, low-end hardware we can.
No, not the RTX 3090.
This, the Raspberry Pi Zero.
This is a computer which costs, what, five, 10 bucks?
Single core, literally the lowest spec possible.
It qualifies as a computer, but not by much.
- [Kenneth] I mean, this is a project kinda system,
not really for anything else, but I'd be impressed
if it can at least run it.
To be fair, Matt and I put bets on how long it'll take
for you to load this, and we both bet against you.
- I don't think this is gonna work.
I think it will not be usable.
I think it's gonna probably, whoa, okay.
- [Kenneth] I'm gonna leave the camera there
'cause I'm tired of holding it.
You can- - So it's just
gonna be a montage now of Austin waiting
for Raspberry Pi Zero to load a webpage
for the next 15 minutes. - Yes.
- So, all right, (computer clattering)
we've already given up.
We're just switching to the 400.
- Okay. - Look at that.
Look how much better this is. Oh, my gosh!
Okay, so immediately, we'll say it feels pretty blurry.
So let's full screen it. - That image compression.
It's hard to get that on camera,
but it's not particularly good.
- It definitely looks like I'm watching a 720p video
of a Windows system.
- [Kenneth] But to be fair, we are also looking
at this on, like, a 48-inch TV.
- Yeah, there might be a scenario
in which, if you have some kind
of native Remote Desktop app, it runs better,
but even on what is a relatively powerful Raspberry Pi,
at least in Pi terms, the 400, this is not
a good experience, at least running in the browser.
It's just, it's so laggy.
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(title smacking) (upbeat music)
So this is a vehicle that happens to have
a web browser in the center display,
so what I have done is I have tethered
this particular vehicle to my Z Flip,
so we are on 5G, and I've loaded up Windows 365.
Now, I've not pressed the open browser button yet,
so let's just see what happens.
Uh-oh, oh, no, "This client isn't officially supported
on your browser device," but it said you can use it anyway.
Ooh! 'Cause I didn't know what kinda browser this is.
It's probably some Chromium thing.
"The client might not work the way it's designed to."
Oh, yes, yes, activate all the things,
yes, all my resources.
Jailbreak my car. Go for it.
- [Kenneth] It can't open the remote port.
(Austin groaning and laughing)
Yeah. Okay. Okay. - It's not, it's not doing it.
All right, I think that's a fail.
I think we found the first device
that does not support Windows 10, which is a whole vehicle.
- Well.
(whimsical music)
Oh, yeah.
(Austin laughing)
So, this is the Scion iQ from the "Building a PC
in a Car" video, except the PC isn't here anymore.
Instead, we have an Xbox Series X.
We have an insider version of Microsoft Edge,
which should, in theory, let us run Windows 365.
We are finally doing the thing
that Microsoft should've done in the first place.
- Windows on an Xbox!
- Windows on an Xbox.
This is something that we've wanted, all of us here
in the office, for a long time.
We're never gonna get it, but this
is gonna be the next best thing, right?
Oh, my God, it's working right here.
- [Austin] Ooh, Windows!
- So this, in theory, should work.
We haven't tried this wireless keyboard mouse
at oh, wow! - Works flawless!
We go, we go full screen on it?
Oh, my God, we did it! (laughs)
Yo! Dude, this is great.
Wait, wait, actually open up a video or something.
Wait, wait, wait, the Scion video!
- Wait, wait, wait. (laughs) - The Scion video!
- [Kenneth] That is a little too on the nose. (laughs)
We're not logged in to YouTube, by the way.
This is- - No, it, it just,
we just happened to be served the video
of us building the car.
We are quite literally-
- [Kenneth] Oh, that's literally in here.
- In the world's fastest gaming PC!
This is a win.
This is absolutely 100% a win. - Yeah!
I mean, shout-out to Xbox for putting Microsoft Edge,
full Microsoft Edge on there with Chromium.
Makes a lotta things possible, including this,
though I guess my question is can we do xCloud?
- No, you can't do xCloud. (Kenneth laughing)
- [Kenneth] Are you going to- (laughs)
- Okay, so hang on, so let me just be clear,
right now, we're gonna run xCloud via the Windows system
in the cloud, so basically, we're double-clouding
over 5G into an Xbox in the back of a car.
- Yes. - We're clouding on cloud.
Oh, did you get it? (gasps)
(Matt laughing) - No!
Oh, my God. - Yo!
- I hear, oh! - Yo!
It's, wait! (logo whooshing)
(everyone laughing)
- [Kenneth] (laughing) That is awful.
I mean, that is about four frames per second.
(Matt laughing)
- [Austin] Wait, we're updating Destiny!
No wonder it's running bad.
- [Kenneth] Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, let's turn that off.
(laughing) Wait.
Wow, we have good 5G here. Damn.
- Look at that!
Oh, okay, so our performance was just down to the fact
that we were downloading Destiny over 5G.
If only we could actually just play Xbox games on an Xbox.
I like how we're going through all this trouble
when we have an Xbox we could just play games on.
- [Kenneth] Well, this is not the intended use case.
- No, I don't think any of this is an intended use case.
I don't think they ever imagined that someone
would be this stupid to be able to go this far
to push technology beyond its outer limits,
to explore new horizons,
to experience
the wonder of poor decision-making.
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and until next time, we're going to go six layers deep
in the cloud until we can't find a way out.
(adventurous music)