The growth of its mobile business hasn't been enough to offset its troubles on the desktop.
It has well-developed apps for managing your content and photo libraries on the desktop.
While they're pinned to the Start Screen, each app will open up on the desktop.
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We want to create some mobile experiences that simply can't be done on the desktop.
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Mobile gives Facebook the opportunity to reach way more people than on the desktop, Zuckerberg says.
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They did this because the best and easiest to use products were only available on the desktop.
Files can be synched to the Creative Cloud and opened in Photoshop on the desktop or laptop for further refinement.
Zynga still needs to churn out its own hit games both on the desktop and on mobile.
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Facebook has over a billion users on the desktop, but its phone ecosystem won't pop up over night.
As for deteriorating trends on the desktop, he says the primary issue is a shift to mobile devices.
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These personazlied searches are available on Google.com on the desktop as well as on iOS and Android devices.
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Just as with mobile apps, Pokki has real-time notifications, one-click installs and apps are easily accessible on the desktop.
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The so-called Spoken Answers feature will come to Chrome on the desktop soon.
"We'll deliver things you couldn't have imagined, like search better than what you get on the desktop, " Gundotra says.
"Microsoft has a lock on the desktop, which is a major channel to the Internet--an unbelievable franchise, " Schwartz says.
Over time, Drawbridge gets more accurate in connecting a person on mobile to the same person on the desktop.
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Microsoft has leveraged its monopoly so well that it now commands almost all the software used on the desktop.
In addition, conversions to sales are higher on mobile than on the desktop.
To get the same income means working harder, faster, and more efficiently on mobile as you do on the desktop.
At the TechCrunch event, he notes, Zuck asserted that mobile revenue per time spent could top that on the desktop.
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It was very easy, via tabs on the desktop search, to switch between searches of documents and searches of e-mails.
On the desktop, windows have a flatter, two-dimensional feel, meaning the old transparent bordering is a thing of the past.
Jobs may have obliged in a recent TV interview, alluding to having "something up our sleeve" on the desktop front.
"We wanted something on the desktop that would be low maintenance - no hard drive and no floppy drive, " he said.
Search has had the same generic experience for over a decade, primarily tied to how the browser is used on the desktop.
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User's files can be synced to the Creative Cloud and opened in Photoshop Touch on the desktop or online for further refinement.
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"We won't see 64-bit running on the desktop until 2006, " Knox agreed.
However, counter-intuitive to the expectations set on the desktop, Flash was missing.
"Skype evolved on the desktop as a large application that maintains a connection with all of your peers, " he told the BBC.
So web properties leap to the forefront of modern UI design, making for amazingly productive, fast and fluid applications on the desktop.
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