Let's stroke the crystal ball again, since this one has come to pass we need to make a new set of big predictions to look forward to ....
Desktop stuff is now going to start to evaporate and all the Linux distros and other FOSS stuff that want to survive into the future will begin to move themselves towards phones and tablets and Chromebooks and light laptop stuff.
ARM processors will slowly begin to take over once they hit the true 64 bit levels later this year and the new 64 bit ARM standards will begin to be enforced by the marketplace.
Saying it may happen and saying it is STARTING RIGHT NOW is somewhat different. 2014 is your tip year for these predictions with 2015 making them all solidly real.
When you see Ubuntu (and Mint and the others with it) start to pay LESS and LESS attention to their desktop distros and suddenly begin to consolidate and bend their efforts more towards tablets and phones (with portable after market keyboards w/track pads, mice, etc) all working together through the new high speed longer range Bluetooth connections, then this prediction will have started to come true.
When you see Firefox begin to slight the desktop in favor of tablets and phones, it will be just the beginning of the tip point.
When you see Roku and Chrome dongles set up AS SHIPPED to run a full browser through a full sized Bluetooth keyboard/trackpad/mouse with the same browser based stuff all working on TV, tablet and phone (and Chromebook/box in the case of Google) then the tipping has hit the pivot point.
When you can comfortably game on your 10" tablet and your TV using the same sort of stuff -- then acceptance will have arrived.
Work stuff (word processing & spreadsheet) will come along naturally as you can do these more difficult gaming things on your mobile devices and TV.
Last long big prediction -- Windows 9 will not reverse Microsoft's decline in overall market share. What Microsoft loses by killing off XP stays gone (and the ill will they generate for themselves on the desktop will remain forever). Apple will become the main top end player in the USA marketplace.
Normal People will have tasted FOSS now and liked it. Apples remain crunchy juicy good stuff.
Microsoft, not so much, that sour greedy aftertaste remains on the tongue long afterwards.
Note, there will still be a desktop PC pie chart that shows Microsoft as a major player, but if you compared the relative size of the pies that makes up those charts the pie will be down in size relatively from a 9 inch pie to a snack sized tart by the end of 2015.
Mobile will have grown to be HUMUNGOUSLY bigger and the desktop PC market will have actually shrunk in both real and relative size.
FOSS major OS players will be Google, Firefox, Ubuntu/Mint. MS will still be in there, ranked no higher than 4th-6th place and still shrinking. Apple will be a lot bigger than MS. A not yet seen Chinese OS player will come up in the pack to be in the top 5.
Intel will be still shipping up in the top end 25% of chipsets, but nothing much in the lower half of things. Nothing much will be x86 natural any more. ARM/Android will be the hardware standard of the day.
The 20-16nm shift starts before July of this year, but in year 2015 14-10nm will be where Apple is headed with their latest full volume shipping 64 bit ARM chipset.
These two year predictions will tend to happen quicker than you predicted.