[kenjackson]

The number of people actively developing new desktop apps for Windows has to be tiny. Maybe even smaller than tiny.

Wrong. Windows desktop application development is still huge. Take a look at sites like download.cnet.com and look at how many apps get added each day. And this generally doesn't include the huge ecosystem of things like Office add-ins.

The Window's market isn't a growth market right now, but it's a market where there's still a lot of code being produced for it.