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There are any number of reasons you may want to praise the new usage model being previewed by Microsoft for Windows 8. Like many, you may come to appreciate the company's apparently enhanced understanding of the requirements of the mobile user. Financial analysts had been worried about whether Microsoft could address a tablet PC skill set with an operating system born and raised on the desktop.

At last, you may join the chorus in saying, the desktop is dead and "the world is moving to mobile." If there is one prevailing truth about this industry in the past quarter-century, it's that things that are dead are the hardest to kill. (For more, see "Reed Hastings," "DVD.")