Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears

Microsoft has announced a preview of “Windows 365 Reserve”, a service that provides pre-configured cloud PCs it suggests as ideal when physical machines aren’t usable.

As explained in a Wednesday post by Stefan Kinnestrand, Microsoft’s Veep for “Modern Work”, the service provides “instant access to a temporary, pre-configured Cloud PC when their primary device is unavailable.”

“Reserve Cloud PCs” will be preloaded with Microsoft 365 apps and a user’s preferred security policies and other Windows customizations.

An application form for those interested in testing the service mentions data synchronization enabled by Microsoft’s OneDrive, plus pre-loaded corporate apps. The virtual machines will appear as just another PC to manage in Microsoft’s Intune endpoint wrangling tool.

The form also states that Windows 365 Reserve will make a Cloud PC available for 10 days a year, usable “all at once or split up”.

Kinnestrand suggests the cloud PCs ...