Vista Gadgets Top10: Hack your desktop

Microsoft's Windows Vista team has just announced the Top10 winners of the Windows Vista Gadgetes development Competition.

Interestingly, the Vista team's original goal was to select 20 well-made widgets for the sidebar, but in the end, the reviewers were satisfied with 29, showing how seriously developers took the Vista sidebar.

The Vista sidebar Gadget Top10 represents a new direction in the user interface of the next generation of operating systems, and from the simple features of these gadgets, we may see the prospect of new markets, as well as existing industries that are "threatened" by them

SoapBox Video plugin - Play MSN videos in the Vista sidebar, create and share your video favorites

Without having to open a web page, all video online functions are done directly on Vista's desktop - a position that Youtube and other video sites will soon face losing share