The other day I was thinking of all the ways to say, "The desktop computer is dead." It's the fashion in computer industry to pronounce things dead--for effect, of course. The desktop computer has already been pronounced dead several times. The reality is never a matter of absolutes--correction, sometimes, but never absolutes. The desktop computer isn't dead; it isn't going to be dead anytime soon; it may never be dead. However, there's a point here: For the first time the desktop computer is going into a fight with mobile computers, and it's outnumbered and outgunned.