Use a webpage as your desktop with WebDesktop

I wish a simple application like this existed for Windows Vista.

Starting with IE7 Windows no longer natively supports Active Web Desktops. For example for pages likes this http://satellite.ehabich.info/nacrescent.htm

Wouldn't this be kinda cool to use with something like Backpack?

When there's a keynote going on from Apple I always have 3 copies of Webdesktop opened. One is for Apple.com, the other two are for different rumour sites. Love this app.

This is SO Windows 98...

Well, this app has been around for ages, it's 2.5 already.

And it doesn't integrate with the OS any more than any other app, it simply uses a full screen window above the desktop pic, but below the icons to render pages.

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This level of integration between OS and Internet is scary. Microsoft is still probably konking themselves over the head for the lack of foresight in integrating a web browser so tightly into the OS that the two become inseparable - hence any vulnerability in the web browser opens up the entire OS.

I prefer my web applications to have their own protected memory space and virtually no OS integration.

Rev. 1 of the iPhone (never went to production) had rotary dialing. (Think Click Wheel with on-screen rotary dial)

Cool. When will Apple start selling rotary telephones?

This has to be the most rediculous thing I've ever heard in my life!!
As No.3 said "Who would want to view ads on their desktop?" Ha ha very funny ;-)

Yeah, real exciting.. I hate to sound the way Apple fanboys do when ragging on Windows, but "OMGWTFLOLBBQ!!! DAT IS SOOO OLDD! THEY ARE RIPPING OFF MS!!!"

Seroiously, I remember using this feature (aka Active Desktop) back in.... Help me out, Winboy lurkers, whenever MS released the Win98 shell upgrades as part of an IE 4 preview. Didn't like it then and don't really see the usefulness now, but whatever floats yer boat, I suppose.