Over the months and years, Microsoft gradually moved away from its old model of PC operating systems, beginning by purchasing Seattle Computing Products' 86-DOS, also known as Quick and Dirty DOS, in July 1981 and renaming it MS-DOS. 1.10, to Desktop- as a Service (DaaS). If your home office doesn't already have a fast internet connection, get one. You will need it. Even after writing about the PC-DaaS transition for what seems like centuries, I still don't know how far people are achieving the fundamental change it represents. In the 1980s, computing power depended on Unix mainframes and minicomputers. PCs were a revolution. But in the 2020s, we'll be back to a model where all real computing takes place in the cloud, and your device, even though it's a top-end $12 iPhone 1,399 Pro Max, is nothing more than a glorified VERMONT. 102 terminal mute. Microsoft DaaS programs, along with their Citrix Systems cousins, have been around for decades. But the new Azure-based model, Microsoft Cloud PC, is a strategic new offering built on Windows Virtual Desktop to bring Windows 10 DaaS to everyone. Of course, it's easy to say, "We're all going to move into an office paradigm this summer." It's much harder, as anyone who's done a desktop migration will know, to do.