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Microsoft's Guggenheimer: Desktops Not Going Away

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.” 

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