Microsoft Windows Vista to include "Gadgets" - Page 2

ElDiabloConCaca · #9 September 16th, 2005, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by adambyte

*sneeze* Konfab did it first *sneeze*

http://www.konfabulator.com

Arguably, Apple did it first with "Desk Accessories" back in System 6 or 7... the naysayers will point out the differences, while the rest will point out similarities...

Reality · #10 September 16th, 2005, 04:20 PM

I hope they create useful ones. Like ones that can tell you how many viruses you have, or a "gadget" that will annoy you to death to "update" something more and more.

CreativeEye · #11 September 16th, 2005, 05:33 PM

i was just doing a google search for something regarding my ipod and one of the links that came up was this... interesting...

http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

**Captain Code** · #12 September 16th, 2005, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Reality

I hope they create useful ones. Like ones that can tell you how many viruses you have, or a "gadget" that will annoy you to death to "update" something more and more.

Can't help not laughing at that

**fryke** · #13 September 16th, 2005, 06:34 PM

Kinda makes me think this is why Apple renamed their gadgets to widgets in Tiger: http://haligon.blogspot.com/2005/09/...d-gadgets.html ...

symphonix · #14 September 16th, 2005, 08:30 PM

The Konfabulator story does go a little deeper. Arlo Rose, the creator of Konfabulator and co-founder of the company, used to work for Apple. He developed the themes and appearances in Mac OS 9. I get the impression that Apple were not really happy when he later left the company and set-up his own shareware program called "Kaliedescope", a theme manager for Mac OS 9, which built heavily on his experience in developing the themes in OS9.

He even pitched the idea for widgets while he was at Apple, and when nobody really picked it up, mentioned it to Sun's Perry Clark, the creator of JavaScript, and Konfabulator was born.

And MS's claims that Gadgets are not a rip-off of widgets but a new idea based on the Active Desktop is more than a little silly. After all, have you ever, ever seen anyone actually use active desktop in the 8 years since its release?

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And in somewhat related news....

Way to go Vista, for going with a brushed metal UI! should be the new hotness for sure!

hahaha

Hahaha, I also had a good chuckle at this one, thanks Quiksan.

Hey, did anyone else notice that in the past week, the Windows Vista team announced another 3-6 weeks of delays, and then only days later, Microsoft announced a "management reshuffle" of the Windows Vista team?

powermac · #15 September 17th, 2005, 09:21 AM

I am not surprised at M$. What I am surprised at is they have not stole expose yet. Then again, perhaps I speak to soon.

**fryke** · #16 September 17th, 2005, 09:54 AM

There's a new "stacking" view for open windows/applications in the Alt-Tab viewer IIRC. Looks a _little_ similar to Exposé concept-wise, but in 3D. On the other hand, Exposé is Apple's answer to Windows' Alt-Tab, which shows documents as well as apps, because of Windows' behaviour in regard to docs/apps... I guess these things just happen.