This reviewer - and the friend that introduced this game to this reviewer - have always been fans of Scott Adam's brainchild. Therefore, it was much to this reviewer's delight when given the chance to play the game that he (more-or-less) sanctioned.
This game can perhaps be best described as a package of mini-games, each of which aims to capture the gist and theme of the Dilbert IP. While these mini-games do achieve this aim, many of them certainly do not have enough appeal to be worth-while 'time-wasters', as some people who have played them suggest they are.
Perhaps the single most fun mini-game is Techno-Raiders, which borrowed the fun elements of platforming games of yore (especially Wrecking Crew and Donkey Kong). This mini-game makes full use of the personality of each of Dilbert's co-workers, though most of them are automatons with hardly any initiative to seek Dilbert out and steal his gadgets (which he incidentally stole from the company itself in his mad-dash quest to escape it through the roof, however ridiculous that plan is).
Unfortunately, the rest of the so-called games in this bundle is barely half as fun. For example, Elbonian Airlines' only fun aspect is having Dogbert and the amusingly backwards Elbonians as the protagonists; hearing the often repeating quips and utterances of Dogbert, the Elbonians and the unwitting customers of the Airline is not, so is the rather bland pop-ups that make up the graphics of this mini-game. The other mini-games had more or less the same presentation.
This reviewer finds CEO Simulator the most disappointing of the functional, actual mini-games. What was promised to play out like a business simulator is really nothing more than an effort that can be best described as watering a plant to see it bloom a huge but unimpressive flower.
Certain portions of the package however are in fact not games at all; instead, they were more like image editors that let the player plaster stuff all over a pseudo-background that the application creates, or impregnate phrases with so much business lingo that the end result is perverse and amusing only to people who happen to lead lives similar to Dilbert & Co.
While Dilbert's Desktop Games does capture the gist of the IP somewhat, it is not really worth much as a source of entertainment.