I've been saying for years that Google's Chrome OS will become the main competitor to Microsoft's Windows. I was wrong in the timing, but my prediction that "most of us will move to cloud-based operating systems" is finally coming to pass. According to the latest PC sales figures from IDC, in the fourth quarter of 2020, Chromebooks sold twice as much as Macs. More precisely, in the fourth quarter of last year, Windows had 76,7% of the market (not was in danger of losing his first place this decade); macOS had 7,7%; and Chrome OS had 14,4%. For 2020 year-over-year compared to 2019, Windows lost 4,9 percentage points, from 85,4% to 80,5%; macOS grew 0,8 percentage points, from 6,7% to 7,5%; and Chrome OS firmly established itself in second place, jumping 4,4 points from 6,4% to 10,8%. In its 2020 personal computing device market analysis, research firm Canalys reported that the overall market for Chromebook vendors had nearly quadrupled in the same period a year earlier. As Canalys research director Rushabh Doshi put it: “Demand for Chromebooks is booming.” Because? It is easy. Thanks to the coronavirus, 2020 was the year that almost all of our kids virtually “attended” school via Chromebooks. As Doshi explains, "As many countries are forced to accelerate their digital education plans following additional lockdowns, schools and universities are clamoring for easy-to-implement solutions, and Google's digital offerings for education are proving hugely popular across the board." competing platforms, particularly in the United States and Western Europe."