Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Microsoft today announced their platform for little desktop doohickeys: Microsoft Gadgets.
Great, now we’ve got four completely incompatible systems of desktop utilities:
So if you want to develop widgets for the mass market, which one do you pick? Or do you do your widget for all four?
Hooray for walled gardens! (Sigh)
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If it’s any consolation, I find widgets borderline useless. They need a more integrated solution, like the DAs of OS 6. Those little things could be pulled up from a menu and acted almost like an application, except they left entirely when you clicked away their window.
Like a calculator I could pull up and use even while I have focus on something else in the OS. Konfabulator can kinda/sorta do that, but not well enough to put up with their runtime environment.