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Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back. (xakpc.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social to c/technology@piefed.social

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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.

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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.