The author of the article fails to mention maintenance. This is probably one of pains of desktop applications. It has been greatly improved by automatic updat

The author of the article fails to mention maintenance. This is probably one of pains of desktop applications. It has been greatly improved by automatic updates (I think everything does that now), but you still have to remain backward compatible. On top of that, he doesn't mention that "the desktop" is still a very fragmented field. The last time that nut was attempted to be cracked we got Java..