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Widget Watch: Microsoft Dashboard Widget?

by Erica Sadun Apr 20th 2007 at 1:15PM

"Dashboard widgets by Microsoft, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria" --P. Venkman, Ghostbusters

Behold what appears to be a Microsoft Live Search Dashboard widget, as spotted by TUAW reader Florian on Nik Fletcher's blog. TUAW decided to check this out. We downloaded a copy of the widget from the Apple website, opened it up and looked inside.

And to us, at least, it looks like this is not actually produced by Microsoft. Our best guess? A French Mac user put this thing together. The code is littered with comments in French, debug statements, and third party subroutines. There's nothing in there that indicates this was an actual Microsoft product. So how is it as a widget? It's fine if LiveSearch is your thing.



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Mortal

"It's wrong to be french."
-Al Bundy

April 21 2007 at 5:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Richard Hoppes

"The code is littered with comments in French, debug statements, and third party subroutines."

That doesn't really mean "a French Mac user put this thing together".

April 21 2007 at 3:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christian Maus

Actually, the download link for this widget points to the MSN.fr-Server!?!

April 21 2007 at 6:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

Is there actually anything like this for Google? This is far better than the ones I've seen...

April 21 2007 at 4:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ECHO

"I'll start using Microsoft Live Search just as soon as Google goes out of business."

I'll second that. The thought of using Live Search makes me throw up slightly in my mouth.

April 20 2007 at 6:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom von S.

"The code is littered with comments in French, debug statements, and third party subroutines."


That's more or less how I've always imagined Microsoft code.

April 20 2007 at 2:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jay B

I couldn't think of a better time to use that quote...good work

April 20 2007 at 1:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

I'll start using Microsoft Live Search just as soon as Google goes out of business.

April 20 2007 at 1:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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