Question: what is the difference between arcgis desktop and arcgis for desktop?
Answer: 1 Answer. They are the same product i.e. there is no difference. My recollection is that when launched in 1999 what today is known as ArcGIS Desktop 10.6 was known simply as ArcGIS 8.0. Later, maybe at 9.0, and certainly around the time ArcGIS Server was launched it was renamed to be called ArcGIS Desktop.