The natural next step in IT evolution is to move not just productivity software, but also the desktop itself, to the cloud. Microsoft 365/Office 365 has 47.5% of the market, followed by Google’s application family, with 44.56%. Indeed, by Statista’s latest count of office productivity software market share, office software that’s hosted on-premises barely counts.
Today’s Windows PCs are far more likely to run software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings such as Microsoft 365/Office 365 or Google Workspace than they are old-style office suites such as Office 2019, WordPerfect Office, or LibreOffice. We still have PCs on our desks, but increasingly, we’ve been moving back to the centralized model. Decades ago, we used dumb terminals attached to mainframes for corporate work. With this work transformation, the desktop is also changing.
government: They’re all either delaying office reopenings or shifting to remote or hybrid work. Just ask Google, Facebook, Netflix, or the U.S. Thanks to the pandemic, working from home no longer languishes as a rare option for a few workers.
