[unimpressive]

Bad article title. Doesn't even attempt to show a statistical trend that they're 'coming back' (I would argue with the existence of app stores and the like that they never really left). Does talk about the authors experience of offering a desktop app which is very interesting.

[dang]

Ok, we changed the title to a representative sentence from the article.

[agmcleod]

Was thinking the same. Even when ajax was getting big, i still recall using a lot of the same programs i did then. A text editor/ide, a browser, desktop games, ms word, etc.