When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you.

Paul Graham lays into web applications as part of the reason Microsoft is "dead". During a discussion about that article, someone mentioned to me that they agreed, and they would never build ...

Flash, Silverlight and Ajax get most web applications over the hump in terms of usability and are the technologies behind the fast transition of desktop applications to the web.

With the distinction between online apps and desktop programs becoming ever more blurred, it's now possible to set up some of the most well-known web apps on your Windows, macOS, or Chrome OS desktop.

Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development.

Efforts like the VDI (Virtual Desktop Initiative), a consortium of vendors promoting virtualization as a desktop and application management solution, are being driven primarily by VMware.