back to article A virtual phone inside a virtual cloud desktop is now an actual thing

Amazon Web Services has tweaked its Workspaces cloudy virtual desktops service, adding the ability to voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) software. The company says it's now possible to take audio from whatever client device you use to run Workspaces' client app, then pipe it Skype, Lync or WebEx running on the cloudy virtual …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Holmes

    Time?

    In March it'll be a year since the last physical, so...?

  2. Lusty

    " Either that or it believes users are willing to tolerate unpleasant exchanges on the phone."

    Why not, mobile phone manufacturers these days assume we all are and have made battery/cost/quality choices that make their devices all but useless for actually speaking to people.

    1. Gene Cash Silver badge

      Crap "features" or outright feature loss

      No kidding. At work we have Cisco VoIP and Zoom meetings. Zoom is *supposed* to do screen-sharing and audio. In practice, the Zoom audio is so shite, people dial up with Cisco.

      Zoom has horrible echos, horrible noise suppression, and clips the hell out of speech. Yet, it's supposed to be the latest and greatest. Oh yes, and it also doesn't support Linux or Mac, unlike our previous system.

  3. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Ooh, I'm just fresh out of virtual fucks to give. Too bad.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Oh yum, more easy intercepts

    I was kinda hoping we had now arrived at a point where we would start to make intercept a bit more difficult again, but apparently not. Oh well.

    1. Mike 16

      Re: Oh yum, more easy intercepts

      On the plus side, the spooks won't be able to understand what is being said either.

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