Operating systems and applications will no longer run only on the employee's PC but on a virtual machine in a data centre that can be accessed remotely, theoretically from any PC in the world.

操作系统和应用将不再只运行在员工的个人电脑上而是可以远程访问的数据中心的虚拟机上，理论上就可以用世界上任何一台个人电脑来访问。

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Some of these programs will do complete, automated backups of everything on your PC, including applications.

其中一些程序能够完整地自动备份个人电脑上的所有东西，包括应用程序。

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"It's not about web applications or desktop applications but integrating the Internet in the cloud into these applications that are on both my phone and the PC," Gartenberg said.

这不是桌面软件和网络软件之争，而是将互联网融入进我们的PC机应用软件和手机应用软件。

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Once you've installed these "virtual" machines on your Mac, you can for the most part install PC applications on the virtual machine as though it were a real PC--though few software vendors will actually help you out running their software in an emulated environment.

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But with the exception of games, which Virtual PC doesn't support because it isn't designed to handle the complex graphics and sounds that PC games require, many Windows-based applications can run on Virtual PC without any trouble.

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Aspiring application developers will develop for smartphone vendors and companies that provide Internet-based applications, because most innovative work will be done in that domain, instead of designing applications that run on a PC operating system.

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