No, I hadn’t seen that: thanks!

You’re right about the “new model” coming to the desktop. Even Microsoft is on board, with the next version of Windows looking more like Windows Phone (widgets, “apps”, swipe-interface) than like previous versions of Windows, and they’re hardly the biggest innovators in UI design.

Hell, even the Linux distros are leaning a little that way: see Ubuntu for examples of the trend!

It’ll just take some getting used to for poor old me, I suspect!