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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