Web desktops - do you find it interesting?

Question

As a win32 developer moving into web deveopment the last few years, I found the
web desktops based on extjs very interesting.

Coolite Desktop (broken)
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Answer 1

I think they serve as purely tech demos, I don't see the web desktop getting any traction unless Google jumps on this and offers all their major apps (Google Office, Gmail, etc) as apps within a web desktop.

Of course the whole desktop methodology doesn't exactly fit the browser mentality very well.