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Desktop in the Cloud - Dissecting Desktop user Experience

Desktop experience is essentially a combination of personalized profile storage, processing engine and Interaction Interface. Personal Profile Storage: Profile consists of preferences such as background color, placement of programs on the screen, Documents (current and recent), Search Results, Alerts(new mail, IM, phone call), password keyring for cloud services, bookmarks, application data(registry entries/file locations) and any other items that are specific to the individual session. Processing engine: The guts of desktop its cpu, memory, network and disk i/o capabilities that drive the performance and intuitiveness of the local and cloud applications such as office or graphics rich apps, Skype, webex etc. Interaction interface: Keyboard, Mouse, Multi-Touch and Display. The elements that assist in user interface and interaction. The trends in personalized storage are rapidly moving to cloud either as storage(google drive/dropbox) or as a synchronization platform(