Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets Suck
I’ve had Vista installed since mid-December now. I know Apple has already done it, but I thought the addition of the Sidebar was great.
I recently visited the Sidebar Gadget download page and was appalled at the lack of well-recieved gagdgets.
The top download is a simple calculator with a 2/5 rating. Two of the top rated gadgets are prayer related. Only one gagdget listed as ‘Top Rated’ has a rating of over 3/5. There are currently 396 gadgets available for download and after taking a quick scroll through the list nothing stands out at me as especially useful, innovative, or even very well recieved. The average rating seems to be about 2.5/5.
I’m not trying to bash gadgets, just critique the utility and quality of those currently available. Can anyone suggest a gadget they particularly like??
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
I totally agree. Even now, they’re terrible. I wonder how hard it would be for the MS team to make a few gadgets.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Absolutely!! All of them just plain suck. If MS wants people to start adopting gadgets, they need to write some good ones themself.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
agreed, I disable the sidebar cause its pointless