Dynamic desktop is a Windows-based workspace (physical/local desktops or virtual desktops) virtual desktop service, which is aware of the situation or context in which the user is operating at any given time; and dynamically adjusts the content and appearance of the workspace accordingly. Where traditional desktops are static and device-centric, the dynamic desktop is user-centric and context-centric. When applied to mature and IT solution to become service-centric, Dynamic desktops and dynamic datacenters make up the space generally termed dynamic IT. Dynamic desktops form a part of the technology space termed as virtual desktop administration, and are also relevant during large scale desktop visualisation deployment.

See also

• Context awareness
  Context awareness
  Context awareness is defined complementary to location awareness. Whereas location may serve as a determinant for resident processes, context may be applied more flexibly with mobile computing with any moving entities, especially with bearers of smart communicators...
  
  
• Workspace virtualization
  Workspace virtualization
  Workspace virtualization is a way of distributing applications to client computers using application virtualization however it also bundles several applications together into one complete workspace. It is an approach that encapsulates and isolates an entire computing workspace...
  
  
• Desktop computer
  Desktop computer
  A desktop computer is a personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location, as opposed to a mobile laptop or portable computer. Early desktop computers are designed to lay flat on the desk, while modern towers stand upright...
  
  
• Virtual desktop
  Virtual desktop
  In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the size of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's real estate through the use of software, This saves space...
  
  
• UltraXML
  UltraXML
  UltraXML is a WYSIWYG XML dynamic desktop publishing solution that can be used for complex document creation requiring high level of typographical controls....
  
  
• Desktop virtualization
  Desktop virtualization
  Desktop virtualization , as a concept, separates a personal computer desktop environment from a physical machine using the client–server model of computing....