I don't think the rest of the world is moving on, at least not for long. Full cloud has too many fundamental drawbacks to become a universal solution. It's the buzzword of the moment, but it's taken a very long time to get there by tech industry standards, and it's still underwhelming even today.

With execs at the big publicly held software firms looking to the next quarterly financial call, they're all going with the hype anyway. That creates an opportunity for a disruptive movement that shifts the market instead of pandering to it. My guess would be that private clouds, software-defined networking and a bunch of tools that better support things like remote working and BYOD will steadily push full external cloud solutions out of most large corporations, and smaller scale tools based on the same basic ideas will emerge to support SMEs.

And that brings me to my big question: What is the only operating system in the world that is already demonstrably a credible platform for all of server, desktop and mobile computing?