Ask HN: Are Desktop Applications Microservices?

Daring thesis: if you develop an assamble of old school desktop applications that work together via im- and exports and dont use the same data storage - you are developing microservices. True or false?

On a resume, no; people are just looking for keywords and will assume you mean the more conventional sense.

During the interview, yes. "In a sense, I have worked on microservices, because I have worked on X, which, while not a conventional microservice, is similar.