Last month, Microsoft decided to discontinue their desktop gadgets gallery and the support for these mini-applications. Where Windows 7 & Windows Vista users can now get access to good gadgets?
This article aims to help and shares two of the remaining sources of gadgets, plus a roundup of great gadgets you might want to try.
Does it mean… There will be no gadgets in Windows 8 as well? Too bad. Too, too bad.
I never developed a “warm, fuzzy feeling” for gadgets and only toyed with a couple of them a time or two before totally abandoning the concept, however many users do like and use gadgets. While Microsoft’s abandonment of gadgets is no personal loss to me it is another case of Microsoft deciding for the user what they want or do not want on their computers. I am sure that there are hundreds of thousands of users worldwide who will be quite inconvenienced by this decision. Bad Microsoft!
Howdy y’all,
Whutz a gadget?????????
I can’t believe they’re doing this. I bought into the whole stupid ecosphere buying a Thinkpad with Windows Vista, then a year later shelling out money to buy what Vista should have been, Windows 7. I had two rows of gagets on my comiputer. They checked the weather for me (very important in Canada), they tracked pacakages for me, my facebook feed, they kept track of my ebay transactions and provided me a quick lookup of how to pronouse a word and it’s definition. They were incredibly useful especially to a home business user but also to everyone who really, really hates the system tray. I love how on the gadgets download page they say that they’ve discontinued support for gadgets so that they can focus on great features for the current opperating system. I just paid you guys for the latest opperatiing system right after it came out. Microsoft needs to remember who their customers are before they loose them all. I wouldn’t mind.
Microsoft’s customers are not the consumers who use their products, they are the shareholders who own their company stock. Anything stupid and ridiculous they do is almost certainly done to “increase shareholder value” which is business lingo for “create short-term profits.”