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Quotes About Desktop

Under the pretense of wanting to record the history of my brother's year at college, I'd asked to take a picture of Sam with his roommate. Unfortunately, the zoom on my digital camera had somehow been pressed—by a renegade finger, I assumed—and I'd only been able to get a really good close-up shot of Brad. No evidence of Sam in sight. Gosh, darn. What a shame! The photo was now the background wallpaper on my computer desktop.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
~ Larry Ellison
Most of them have desktop computers rather than laptops, which makes it easier to separate their real-world and digital lives;
~ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
~ Miguel de Icaza
Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
~ Jack Dangermond
We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites of whatever type. There are days when I do not have time to switch my desktop computer on, and computer access is by mobile devices on the run between competing engagements.
~ Crispin Blunt
On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
~ Stewart Alsop
Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
~ Matt Mullenweg
The people who talk on the edgier 'Song Exploder' have often made their entire record on their desktop. It's never been easier to compete, but it's never been harder to win, either.
~ David Hepworth
Architecting for the enterprise, when all you really need is a cute little desktop tool, is a recipe for failure.
~ Robert C. Martin
You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.
~ David Hewlett
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
~ Miguel de Icaza
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
~ Ted Nelson
Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on.
~ Michael Arrington
Anther promising gesture innovator is Leap Motion, which makes a cute little activating touchpad that enables you to do all sorts of things by gesture on your desktop computer, including art, graphics, games, handwriting, drawing, map navigation, photo blowups and more.
~ Robert Scoble
Microsoft seems obsessed with the word active. there's Active Desktop, ActiveX, and Active Directory. however, the term is accurate-indeed, Active Directory is Active (when used correctly)
~ Ed Tittel
Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
~ Miguel de Icaza
We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.
~ Satya Nadella
Windows never planned for a VR device. When you plug a HDMI cable into the computer, Windows thinks it's a new monitor. The desktop blinks. It tries to rearrange windows and icons.
~ Brendan Iribe
There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
~ Nat Friedman
From the desktop, right-click the Start button and then choose Control Panel. 2. From the Control Panel, click System and Security and then click Power Options. 3. From the screen's left edge, click
~ Andy Rathbone
The graphical desktop guides useful behavior and hides what is true but not useful.
~ John Brockman