> All that being said, I'd agree that Microsoft is (if you can stomach all of this) at least trying to maintain a desktop operating system. I disagree there, M

> All that being said, I'd agree that Microsoft is (if you can stomach all of this) at least trying to maintain a desktop operating system. I disagree there, MS is trying to maintain a tablet/phone OS that just happens to include some of their older desktop stuff, but they're deprecating that as quickly as possible. Windows 7 was their last desktop OS. Seems like KDE and Gnome are the only ones that care about the desktop these days.