This is cool. People have built widgets for Vista already. Widgets are small tools that run in the new Windows that’s coming shortly, and its cool to see a Banking application included. Kudos to Riverside Bank.
This Widget provides current mortgage rate information at Riverside Bank of Florida.
Source: Yahoo! Widget Gallery
Technorati tags: windows+vista, widgets
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Colin,
Just to clarify “gadgets” are what Microsoft is calling “widgets” in VISTA. These Yahoo widgets run on Mac and Windows.
This widget was developed by Mortgagebot LLC which they have developed for several other banks (http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/index.php?author=12758)
Thanks for the clarification. Where do they run ? On the active desktop?
You can download Konfabulator and then run the gadgets. Doesn’t have to be Vista either; I’ve had them running on XP for quite a while now.
Hopefully MS will make it possible for non-Vista PCs to run gadgets without Vista. I don’t expect that Vista will take off so quickly for an exclusionary business case to make sense…unless the gadget is simply something created “for fun.”
Martin Tibbitts
I’m with Martin, I hope MS will make it possible to run gadgets on XP as well as Vista. I’m hoping that the fact they have released IE7 and the new Windows Media Player for other operating system than Vista, its a sign of things to come. Anyone with any sense will wait to get Vista, everytime MS releases a new OS it has big problems and floors in it, remember the 1st Version of XP? It had so many problems they had to release SP1 very quickly to fix them all! Thats why I now wait for the 1st major update to be done before I upgrade to a new OS.