11.   John Zagula, group marketing manager for desktop applications at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., confirmed reports of the review this week in Advertising Age and Adweek.

12.   Lotus has been steadily losing market share to Microsoft in desktop applications like spreadsheets, word processing and graphics.

13.   Sales growth of important desktop applications sales will decline because most corporations already own word processors and other programs, he said.

14.   Some industry researchers say that Java has been developing most quickly on corporate server installations rather than in desktop applications.

15.   The software was able to learn the repetitive behaviors of the user and automatically customize the desktop applications to suit those patterns.

16.   Within two months it promises a software kit for creating desktop computer speech applications.

17.   Your desktop applications will become a combination of objects that provide the resources you need to accomplish any given task.

18.   In a conference call with analysts, Connors said the reduced expectations were more heavily weighted to desktop applications than platforms.

19.   It handles typical desktop applications, such as the AppleWorks and Microsoft Office for Macs, with no trouble.