Comments on: Microsoft Gadgets

By: Supreme Optomist

Supreme Optomist — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:32:49 +0000

Actually If you want to know where microsoft got gadgets from visit http://www.Stardock.com…they‘ve been doing it for 10 years. And since the introduction of the partnership between konfabulator and yahoo for yahoo’s new yahoo! widgets, Stardock was out numbered in the battle for desktop enhancements, because let’s face it, yahoo’s a supreme advertisement domain. So the people of Stardock and Microsoft have teamed up with the idea to take back the desktop customization area. If you want the actual article, you can visit this site http://www.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?AID=87006.

By: J Richmond

J Richmond — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:06:31 +0000

This is definitly real. Take a look at who registered the domain, microsoftgadgets.com…

http://www.register.com/retail/whois.rcmx

By: Tiberius

Tiberius — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:53:22 +0000

Microsoft is doing alot of things right,

but mostly on the business side,

their marketing strategies is the main reason for their current hold of the market.

I am sure if apple or linux had a strong marketing campaign like theirs, and started when they did they could easily be as succesful.

By: Griffith

Griffith — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:35:15 +0000

Apple also takes some ideas with Microsoft but howcome when big M does it everyone complains?

I’m not a Microsoft fan, but if they have this much market share they must be doing something right and Apple has been around for as long as I can remember also.

By: Ben Askins

Ben Askins — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:40:44 +0000

Why do you think it’s fake? This was one of their announcements at the PDC. And it makes sense to try to take market share away from Konfabulator (Yahoo) and to compete with a unique feature of OS X.