[OT] PC sales down

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 20/04/2017 5:09 AM, Joakim wrote:
> I don't know why you get so worked up about this.  Yes, the new entrant
> won't have features the old computers had.  I was using virtual desktops
> on UNIX workstations regularly decades ago, but Microsoft didn't add
> that to the OS till Windows 10 a couple years ago.  So what?  Most
> people got by just fine.

The API to support multi-desktops has been in Windows for a very long 
time (Windows 2k[0]), it just wasn't exposed in stock Windows.
But if you knew where to look, they certainly did offer it[1]!

[0] 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682124(v=vs.85).aspx
[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881