Talk:Microsoft Gadgets
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[edit] Apple copyed konfabulator and superkaramba 's idea
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.
- Desk Accessory AlistairMcMillan 22:10, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- First of all, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a ranthouse for one's own ideas. The argument of who "copied" who could be twisted several ways, including many of which are in Apple's favor, not Konfabulator - like the Desk Accessories of the original Lisa and Macintoshes. Please refrain from making Wikipedia a soapbox on which to tout one's own viewpoints - be neutral and fair. And please, sign your comments.
Kungming2 01:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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- What about Window's Active Desktop? --Armaetin 23:19, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Merge
We Need To Merge This as they both are virtually identical! Swissbanker 09:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- Need to disambiguate: I thought desktop gadgets refered to multiple topics, ranging from all the Apple Widgets, Google Desktop, etc. If that doesn't happen tho, please continue to merge. Logical2u (Wikibreak) 21:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, this is currently a real mess. There should probably be a generic article for Desk Accessories, then one for each platform. Other articles that need to be part of this cleanup: Desk Accessory, Dashboard (software), Yahoo! Widget Engine. Along the way, the Desk Accessories for GEM should probably be split into their own article. -- Steven Fisher 21:48, 16 June 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)
[edit] Bias or poorly written?
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.
[edit] Add a link to the Windows Live Gallery entry?
Does it make sense to add a link to the Windows Live Gallery entry here? Chris Butler MSFT 18:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
