Link: Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff – Vista Sidebar will be on Windows XP.
A demo in a session on Gadget development for Windows Vista here at the Microsoft PDC just showed the Windows Vista Sidebar running on Windows XP. I’m guessing that WinFX will be a prerequisite, but still that dramatically increases the potential audience for Gadgets.
This is starting to make me wonder what the point of Vista is. So much of it is being back-ported to Windows XP that the only things left are the security aspects – sandboxing applications, for example – and even then it won’t work with some old apps.
