You just need to head to when it launches on August 2nd (that domain isn't yet live), choose a virtual machine configuration, and you'll be up and running. It builds on Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop service, which lets tech-savvy folks also spin up their own virtual PCs, but it makes the entire process of managing a Windows installation in a far-off server far simpler. While Windows 365 doesn't come completely out of nowhere - rumors about some kind of Microsoft cloud PC effort have been swirling for months - its full scope is still surprising.
