desktops

Do not try to match them to desktops, unless you are wrapping the website in a desktop launcher!

The number of desktops running Windows and other Microsoft software, however, is going to continue to decline.

Perhaps Windows 10 will put some pressure on Apple as far as laptops and desktops go.

Sure, botnets suck, but it's not worth giving up control over our desktops to stop them.

Ubuntu is understandable - developers used it on their desktops so when they orderer their first VPS, they chose ubuntu.

Adblocking is already a thing on desktops/laptops and iOS 9 isn't going to ship with an Adblocker turned on or included.

Certainly the use case for desktops is changing - but this is a challenge for the whole industry, not just Windows.

Also good to remember that PCs (desktops) and laptops are really good enough already.

ECC RAM and redundant PSUs alone should be unquestioned advantages over standard desktops.

Now, I understand people not buying it for desktops when they want to run browsers, flash, etc.

I have a 3 desktops, 2 laptops, a NAS and 2 servers and have solved the problems transparently without any cloud services.

Anecdotally, most desktops I used lived much longer than most servers I worked woth.

We already have computational power on desktops that would have been unimaginable not that long ago, not to mention GPUs, but look how shoddy the scientific computing ecosystem is (there are exceptions, but in general it's "not good").

Right now, the state of the art for on-demand cloud remote development desktops to help facilitate intensive development environments, like IntelliJ / Visual Studio / Mathematica, on underpowered clients, (i.e.12" MacBook), is to rely on proprietary protocols that barely work if the targeted remote machine is a Linux desktop.

The way Intel developer designed Gnome 3 for touch screen rather than Desktops.

Desktops no doubt are disappearing quickly in favour of laptops.