You could use a different browser for Hotmail, or do your email via the free desktop program, Windows Live Mail.

Other desktop programs on which Lotus first prospered, including its 1-2-3 spreadsheet, have lost ground to Microsoft products.

The program let me easily import my address book, contact list, memos and task list from the desktop program that works with my Palm organizer.

This is for customizing many features of the desktop program, anything from the color of the display to the arrangement of files.

NET technology, just as the Microsoft Office suite of desktop programs was for Windows.

Each Wave has a set of online services and desktop programs (Windows Essentials).

They were easy to get: Victim 1 had them stored on a desktop organizing program.

So it's another step in Google's efforts to make inroads on Microsoft's core business, desktop programs.

The declines are the first for the company's desktop programs, which dominate the PC software market.

For best results, quit your desktop e-mail program, or stop it from checking, before you head out the door.