By 2006, the companies plan to offer the ability to start a conference session from desktop applications like Microsoft Office with a few clicks of a computer mouse, said Anupam Sahai, the director of system architecture and technology for Polycom.
On cold winter days, a car could be started from a desktop computer.
The first colleges to require computers were the military academies, which started putting a desktop in every cadet's room in 1983.
For me Twitter became indispensable in March 2008, when my usage skyrocketed (I started using a desktop client to read and write messages) – see image above.
Started as a desktop virtualization product to cater to the multiple OS developer crowd, the code base was absorbed into the dynamic infrastructure wave of the early 2000's.
For example, the company started with a desktop manager for Android, not a mobile app, and it focused on building an app search engine instead of an app store.
But you won't have to reach for the back button thanks to new gestures like swipe-left-to-close. Funded with $40 million from First Round, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and other VC heavyweights, Rockmelt started as a desktop web browsing client focused on social sharing.
"We originally started as a desktop website, but that really didn't engage people in the Bible.
It's quite likely that you already have the basics but just in case, here's what you need to get started: A laptop or a desktop computer.
With a potential market measured in the hundreds of millions, he has frightened a lot of big-time computer makers into seeing how good a laptop they can build for less than $500.All start with a desktop version of Linux.
