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.
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.