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Linux: Unlikely. Although Red Hat has recently been lobbying very emphatically, Linux for enterprise applications is still a wonder bag. Windows is reasonably stable as far as essential system functions are concerned, Linux, on the other hand, is a patchwork and this is noticeable even in RHEL and SLES.
macOS could well be an option. Apple tries to strictly follow the principle that user privacy plays an essential role (they converted me from Android to iOS with this), but I assume that macOS will also move "into the cloud" in the medium term (Service note: "The cloud" is just other people's computers.) as soon as Apple will have created a way to learn from the mistakes of others after years of watching the market. They always do.
for enterprises there might be a simple necessity to move on then.
Having your OS run in a Cloud where god knows who has access too and being completely at the whim of a single companies decisions, leaving alone the extreme vulnerability of such a system, is illegal for many businesses or would barr them from having access to regulated industries such as water, energy, healthcare and defense.
My company for instance is simply not allowed to do such shenanigans. We always have to go through a lot of hoops to use a simple SaaS tool.
Why would Apple do that? One of their biggest pros is that they have powerful machines, that are capable of more than an off the shelf PC Laptop. They even produce their own chips now. Why would anybody pay 4000+ $ for something that is essentially a thin client that just connects a display and some peripherals to a cloud?
In addition it would be very hard to convince their tech savvy consumers that a move to a cloud hosted OS would benefit privacy, which has become a bigger selling point over the recent years for them?
Tbh, still better then windows. And a lot friendlier for the average consumer then Linux.
Not anymore. Working with both systems 10-12 hours a day macOs lost it's advantage some years ago.