Windows PCs? They had a 15% growth rate as everyone who could started working from home. That's a 90% year-over-year growth in shipments. (I had the timing wrong, but was right in general.) What I didn't see coming were Macs to the cloud.įirst, as for Chromebooks, IDC's latest PC numbers show Chromebooks made up 11% of total PC shipments last quarter. Then I saw Windows moving from PCs to a cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) model beginning in 2017. Starting around 2012, I predicted Chromebooks would become a big deal.

I've been talking about the future of the 'desktop' on the cloud for years now.