Enabled by the development of powerful desktop computers, this statistical methodology, which is known as Monte Carlo simulation, is now widely used in physics, finance, and engineering.
The open-source Java software framework JStatCom is presented which supports the development of rich desktop clients for data analysis in a rather general way.
This paper also reports on the development of a desktop three-point bending device to measure the mechanical strength of bones from rats subjected to simulated weightlessness.
Until now, Google did not offer its own native email client for any operating system and given Google's focus on the web, it seems unlikely that the company would continue to fund the development of a desktop email client.
Most current models apply primarily to desktop interaction, but with the development of non-desktop UIs, new types of motor behaviors need to be modeled.
Various inherent problems and challenges in the development of highly precise desktop machine tools are discussed in the chapter.
In addition, it's also going back to the GNOME desktop and dropping the development of its own Unity8 desktop environment, starting with the Ubuntu 18.04 release.
That's certainly a reason why, as explained by Philippe Astor in his article, Deezer could not invest in the development of a new rich desktop client (such as Spotify, or iTunes) since desktop clients are clearly seen by music experts or even by consumers as the winning format, the "digital jukebox".
The fast transformation of the Internet into a social web (O'Reilly, 2005) has been due to technological shifts, such as the use of browsers instead of desktop applications, the development of mobile technology, and the availability of cloud computing.
