From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Yep - I like  free mini-apps that share a common design structure - haven't
tried the Yahoo! widgets for XP yet

http://widgets.yahoo.com/


"Gary Britt"  wrote in
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> What do widgets do that any useful utility written as a small utility app
> not do?  I mean aren't widgets just small utility apps that appeal to some
> people?
>
> Gary
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> My main problem with vista is my sheer distrust of Microsoft's drm and
>> activation  schemes - other than that I really like widgets ( both on OS
>> X and Vista ) - Taking out newsgroups in Windows mail sucks too
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>>> Nope. In fact once I turned File/Edit/View back on I found I rather like
>>> it.
>>>
>>> I've discovered something else that may shock a few people here. I like
>>> Vista. Oh not the spyware or activation or drm aspects, no those make it
>>> totally unacceptable taking far too much control of my machine and
>>> putting it in the hands of others. However ignore those and I like it a
>>> whole lot better than XP, it's not near as annoying and has some nice
>>> stuff.
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>>
>>> "mike"  wrote in message
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>>>
>>>
>>

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