![]() This "Mac mini as a service" is available now on Amazon Web Services (AWS). For Linux, you'll require Microsoft Remote Desktop and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients such as Remmina, FreeRDP, and Vinagre.īut Macs? On a major public cloud? Surely not! ![]() For Chromebooks, you'll need Microsoft's Remote Desktop 8. You can do it on macOS, iOS, Android, and even, Chromebooks and Linux machines. Oh, and you won't need a Windows machine to run it on. ![]() Next, Microsoft finally said - as I’ve been predicting for years - that instead of just offering Windows as a business DaaS play, it would start selling Windows DaaS subscriptions to home users. 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. ![]()
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