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

submitted 3 months 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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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Let users make decisions about what they want? That's not how Microsoft works, at least not for a decade now. It's their computer according to them.

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