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The origin of widgets is Konfabulator, as everybody says. Apple stealed konfabulator's idea and it stealed Linux's superkamramba's idea first.
who is who? which is which? huh? and there's many of other wigdet engine, and MS improved windows sidebar with wigdet ideas.
Kungming2 01:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
We Need To Merge This as they both are virtually identical! Swissbanker 09:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Merge done & changed title. How you want to handle this from here is up to you all. Cwolfsheep 20:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Is this article gleaned from a press release or is it just poorly phrased? eg "Microsoft extends the widget idea to the web sites and to the devices which can be any devices. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments". "Microsoft extends"?! That hardly sounds like a NPOV. This article needs cleaning up.
Does it make sense to add a link to the Windows Live Gallery entry here? Chris Butler MSFT 18:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Desktop Gadgets are not a Microsoft defined term, and do not refer to Vista Gadgets alone. The term desktop gadget needs to be indepedently categorized, and Vista gadgets can then rightfully belong there as one of the desktop gadgets available.
Sangeeta.Patni 09:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)Sangeeta
Why do we need them here? By the same rationale that we follow to disallow linking to articles about competing products in the See also section, I think this section should be removed as well. -- soum (0_o) 08:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Why does "desktop gadget" redirect here? Microsoft Vista's implementation is not the only one (Google desktop is another for example). It's as if "instante messaging" redirected to "Windows Live Messenger". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugo 87 ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Oppose, This article is specifically about the gadgets by Microsoft while the other solely discusses the features that the widgets can have and talks more about the gadgets in general. -- 1.55.1.190 ( talk) 09:27, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
It seems to me that Gadgets were discontinued for Windows 8 and later, and the Apps described on this page need Windows 10 to run. That means to me no new gadgets for Windows 7, and any I have installed now are dangerous, and perhaps I should delete or uninstall them, provided I can find them figure out how to delete them.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 02:33, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
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The origin of widgets is Konfabulator, as everybody says. Apple stealed konfabulator's idea and it stealed Linux's superkamramba's idea first.
who is who? which is which? huh? and there's many of other wigdet engine, and MS improved windows sidebar with wigdet ideas.
Kungming2 01:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
We Need To Merge This as they both are virtually identical! Swissbanker 09:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Merge done & changed title. How you want to handle this from here is up to you all. Cwolfsheep 20:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Is this article gleaned from a press release or is it just poorly phrased? eg "Microsoft extends the widget idea to the web sites and to the devices which can be any devices. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments". "Microsoft extends"?! That hardly sounds like a NPOV. This article needs cleaning up.
Does it make sense to add a link to the Windows Live Gallery entry here? Chris Butler MSFT 18:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Desktop Gadgets are not a Microsoft defined term, and do not refer to Vista Gadgets alone. The term desktop gadget needs to be indepedently categorized, and Vista gadgets can then rightfully belong there as one of the desktop gadgets available.
Sangeeta.Patni 09:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)Sangeeta
Why do we need them here? By the same rationale that we follow to disallow linking to articles about competing products in the See also section, I think this section should be removed as well. -- soum (0_o) 08:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Why does "desktop gadget" redirect here? Microsoft Vista's implementation is not the only one (Google desktop is another for example). It's as if "instante messaging" redirected to "Windows Live Messenger". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugo 87 ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Oppose, This article is specifically about the gadgets by Microsoft while the other solely discusses the features that the widgets can have and talks more about the gadgets in general. -- 1.55.1.190 ( talk) 09:27, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
It seems to me that Gadgets were discontinued for Windows 8 and later, and the Apps described on this page need Windows 10 to run. That means to me no new gadgets for Windows 7, and any I have installed now are dangerous, and perhaps I should delete or uninstall them, provided I can find them figure out how to delete them.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 02:33, 21 October 2018 (UTC)