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A wizard keeps what he needs with him, and stores everything else somewhere else.
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A wizard, Lindril Arvilya is never tiday. Nor is he messy. He keeps his Palantír
precisely where he means to!
Why did he throw that? Very good question, Arvedui! There's a lot more to the Palantír than I realised when I first read the books!
I think that if you put yourself in Wormtongue's position, the most obvious emotion behind his action is
Palantír envy. Imagine that your brother, dad, wife, whoever, spends all their time with this mysterious object that you are forbidden to use or even ask about. I dunno, let's say for argument's sake that a computer monitor or a television comes flying out of Orthanc instead.
Gríma was feeling a lot of rage at the time, and I think a large part of it was directed at the object itself. So I think his main purpose was to throw the accursed thing out the window, and secondly to cause damage to one of the many people below that he hated with all his being. In my opinion, he hated Saruman most, but that's definitely open to debate.
What I think is
completely unlikely is that he
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switched from one side to the other
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That would have been completely hack, and more suited to Transformers or Daffy Duck than JRR Tolkien. Besides, I can't recall him ever being on the side of Gandalf or Théoden. And very few people (probably Gandalf and Aragorn only) could have foreseen the use that would be made of the stone.
On the whole I have to agree with those of you that see his fit of rage as a conscious betrayal of Saruman. I don't think Wormtongue fully knew the consequences of his little rebellious tantrum, but he did believe that it would end up hurting Saruman.