Filed under: Widget Watch
Widget Watch: Microsoft Dashboard Widget?
"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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Leonard Nimrod said 1:39PM on 4-20-2007
I'll start using Microsoft Live Search just as soon as Google goes out of business.
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Jay B Sauceda said 1:39PM on 4-20-2007
I couldn't think of a better time to use that quote...good work
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Tom von S. said 3:24PM on 4-20-2007
"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.
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ECHO said 6:13PM on 4-20-2007
"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.
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Alex said 4:48AM on 4-21-2007
Is there actually anything like this for Google? This is far better than the ones I've seen...
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Christian Maus said 6:06AM on 4-21-2007
Actually, the download link for this widget points to the MSN.fr-Server!?!
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Richard said 3:42PM on 4-21-2007
"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".
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Mortal said 5:45PM on 4-22-2007
"It's wrong to be french."
-Al Bundy
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