And while a few basic features are notable by their absence, like word count and copying and pasting to and from the desktop applications, support for new features are being added all the time.
You can merge your Skype and Microsoft accounts on the Skype desktop applications.
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As it stands, both Windows 8 apps and traditional applications may be submitted for inclusion in the Windows Store, however in the case of applications for the desktop environment, purchasers will be re-routed to individual developer sites to make their purchase and grab the download.
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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Microsoft's competitors say the company is using its control of the desktop to dominate the market for other software applications.
Susan Grabau, Sun's StarOffice product line manager, said that these high-profile partnerships should extend the company's reach so it can better compete with bitter rival Microsoft, whose Office product is the most widely used desktop applications suite.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the market-share leader for desktop browsers, according to Net Applications, with a 56% share of the desktop market globally.
From the Dropbox desktop, web, and mobile applications, the "Get link" button generates a unique link to a file or folder.
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The Seagate Desktop SSHD features up to 2TB of massive capacity and 8GB of NAND Flash making it ideal for accelerating the most commonly used PC applications and delivering extreme desktop performance with all the storage capacity needed for any computing scenario.
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The ballyhooed Linux operating system, which is free, has made inroads in the server market, but not on the desktop, for want of applications.
MotionTools gives users a suite of effects and tools that allow them to customize, activate and control desktop applications with the flick of their wrist.
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Now, over the past year or so there has been a real move to push applications that live on the desktop into the online world.
For a company like HP, which makes the bulk of its revenue from selling desktop machines, the move to Web-based applications and the slackening demand for heavyweight computers don't seem like reasons to celebrate.
With Surface Pro, customers can do virtually everything they have ever done on a PC, ranging from using their favorite desktop applications to enjoying the protection of world-class safety and security software.
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Back in the day, there were lots of desktop applications to choose to help me run my business.
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Additionally, Samsung is including a handful of desktop applications designed to soften the learning curve for people new to Windows 8.
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For much of Twitter's history, many users accessed the service through desktop and mobile-device applications developed by other companies rather than through Twitter.com.
In fact, argues Nicholas Carr, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of the new book The Big Switch, those Web applications are signs of a fundamental change, a shift from the desktop to the Web that could redefine computing--and Google's business model.
The new cloud system encompasses all email and desktop applications (such as documents and spreadsheets) for 30, 000 City employees across all City departments.
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The first product in an exciting new music entertainment ecosystem, the LIVE 5000 connects to a consumer's existing home Wi-Fi network, is controllable from iOS, Android and Desktop applications and delivers music from the Internet's most popular content providers.
The VIA ARTiGO A1150 is ideal for a variety of applications in the home or office, including home server, media streaming and surveillance applications or great as a regular desktop PC, using only a fraction of the physical real estate.
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But the rise of cloud computing and desktop virtualization means more applications run on a server.
And we've been working to give web applications access to the full range of desktop capabilities.
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This is a robust experience designed for users who appreciate the level of tracking and analysis possible with the desktop version of Quicken, impossible with other mobile applications.
They usually get a call or e-mail from someone in the company wanting to know why their virtual desktop and other applications are taking forever to load.
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The need for these applications is independent of a shift from desktop to notebooks.
Developers can build standalone mobile Flex applications with the same ease and quality as on web and desktop platforms.
Microsoft fears that if applications increasingly reside on the Internet, rather than on the desktop, all that is needed to gain access to them is a browser and a basic operating system.
This means enterprise users now have a three-way choice for office productivity: remote delivery of desktop applications, browser-based cloud solutions like Google Docs or the native, Microsoft-compatible LibreOffice suite that comes pre-installed.
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The applications allow you to split transactions into several categories just like the desktop software, and this could theoretically save you from facing the daunting tasks of trying to remember details at a later date.
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