Sentence examples for the old desktops from inspiring English sources

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is replacing mixed PCs with a corporate laptop device which provides a power saving of some 60% over the old desktops.

Or you may eventually get to the point where you never need the old desktop.

So they created Windows 8 simply by grafting TileWorld onto the old desktop Windows.

But the changes have disappointed a lot of reviewers and interface design experts, who have focused in particular on the potentially confusing coexistence of the new tile interface alongside the old desktop one.

Mr Ozzie argues there is no demand for a fully featured web-based version, (though, it has to be said, the old desktop-bound Office is one of Microsoft's biggest money-makers and one of the main reasons for people to use Windows).

But users find that perplexing – so much so that one of the bestselling apps on Windows 8 has been Stardock, which lets the user add the start button back in, and ModernMix, which lets tile apps run on the old desktop.

A gesture interface can be seen as an alternative or complement to existing interface techniques, such as the old desktop paradigm.

Windows 8 is being designed as a great touch interface, but with the old desktop UI as a fallback.

The old desktop, the one that's essentially based on the Xerox desktop that Apple copied and Microsoft later adopted, too, was based in the analog world.

True, there have been some complaints from those who see the new operating system as an uneasy mix of the new mobile world and the old desktop environment, but Microsoft seems confident that all is going to plan.

Clicking into the game description, it looks and sounds a lot like the old desktop game Snake or Atari's Centipede, and it is.