30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you’d build on today.
30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you’d build on today.
Yea, no, I don’t want that stuff on my lock screen, what I want is the gadgets bar back, on the right hand side, so I can glance and see the info I want to see.
Any motion required, mouse movement, keys, etc, disrupts what I’m doing - may as well launch a full app then.
And this argument about consuming desktop real estate? Nonsense. My laptop screen is 14", my desktop is two 26" monitors. I have real estate. Let users chose the value of screen real estate.
Let users make decisions about what they want? That’s not how Microsoft works, at least not for a decade now. It’s their computer according to them.
Yeah my desktop is 27" + 24" and has 0-3 icons on it at any given time. It yearns for remotely useful things to display. A long time ago I got frustrated with never being able to keep it organized, so I decided to keep it clean instead. I used the hell out of rainmeter for a while but I remember thinking that was ironic even back then because Microsoft was touting widgets as this revolutionary new thing since windows Vista, yet their implementation of them was terrible.