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by castell 4065 days ago
HTML5 with CSS3 (offline) web apps offer that, Motorola Android offered that called "WebTop" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G), Ubuntu Phone offers that, Apple's continuity offers that. Windows RunTime apps may offer that in future - no specific date.

Microsoft had all the technology already for years inbuilt in Windows and Win32 API, called Windows Terminal Server and Remote Desktop (RDP) - it works great with all Windows applications in enterprise. Yet Microsoft hasn't delivered it yet to consumer devices.

  Microsoft to agree to license Citrix technology for 
  Windows NT Server 4.0, which resulted in Windows Terminal 
  Server Edition in 1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Systems