Microsoft Sideshow (aka Longhorn Taskshelf) Shots!
Posted by Steven Parker on 23 July 2002 - 23:36 · 73 comments & 1075 views
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Its built to use the skinning capabilities of XP and uses XML/HTML for the tasks that are "pinned" or stuck onto the shelf itself.
When expanding a task an additional window pops out with extended information (as shown) and additional tasks.
The Sideshow application can be locked to the left or Right of the Desktop and intergrates MSN Messenger and MS Outlook into the bar itself.
The task panes are called tickets and can be added or removed at leisure such tickets include weather maps, road traffic, webcams, live content and a task scheduler. Internally there are many more of these available on the lan at http://sideshow
We at Neowin don't have this app available for download as it is built for Internal use and has a call-home feature (for bug testing) should a leak surface we'll keep you all informed.
UPDATE: ok for all you non-believers, I can now prove that Microsoft Sideshow was already on the drawing boards at Microsoft Research in 2001. Gina Venolia, Co-developer Sideshow and Microsoft Research It's real folks, we wouldn't BS ya...
Note: Microsoft Research is a leading development team of people that innovate new features and ideas for Windows, while we can now prove the existence of Microsoft Sideshow we can also assume this is the concept for the task shelf in the next version of Windows dubbed "Longhorn" nothing else we've seen comes close to it so until we see something else this is the best candidate.