Microsoft’s Chief Evangelist Steven Guggenheimer tells TechCrunch writer Frederic Lardinois that the desktop is going away any time soon. Lardinois says that in Guggenheimer's view, Microsoft de-emphasized the desktop a bit too much when it first started talking about Windows 8. “We tried to dial it up again a bit at Build,” he said. Today, 700,000 apps run in the Windows desktop mode and “some of the fidelity of mouse and keyboard will never go away.”