I agree that desktop OS vendors are out of touch with their users and that the browser is the most important app on your computer (for some people it's basicall

I agree that desktop OS vendors are out of touch with their users and that the browser is the most important app on your computer (for some people it's basically the only app). However, how can that possibly mean "the end of desktop OS development"? To me, that says that there is a ton of room for future OS development. "Native apps" still get a lot more support from desktop OSes than web apps. If web apps are taking over, this needs to change. In fact, the distinction between native apps and web apps needs to disappear. All apps will involve some amount of client-side data/computation and some amount of server-side. The OS needs to change to acknowledge that. There's plenty of desktop OS development left for the future.