<p>Give the popularity of Apple's iPad and the plethora of other tablets, sub-tablets (sorry, am I supposed to say mini tablets?), high end smartphones (thank you Nokia, yes I am having fun playing with the Lumia 920 you sent me to look at) and other "connectivity enabled" devices we now have at our fingertips...</p><p>... more and more of us are getting used to placing more "digital assets" on the web (ok, sorry, I'm supposed to say "on the cloud" here again aren't I?).</p><p>So the cloud-based desktop emerges and it's not just one or two.</p><p>Sometime referred to as Virtualised Desktop Infrastructure (or VDI for short) -- cloud centric desktops are emerging from both the proprietary vendors and the open source (with options for commercial licensing of course) world alike.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2012/12/some-day-well-all-use-cloud-based-desktops-right.html">Keep reading...</a></p>