Windows Vista Sidebar Returns

[Zolk]

You heard it here first: Despite having previously announced that it was removing the Sidebar from Windows Vista, Microsoft this week returned the feature to its post-Beta 1 (e.g. 5200-series) builds. It's not on by default, and is surprisingly similar to the Dashboard feature in Mac OS X Tiger, according to my sources. But it's in there. And that's all that counts.

Source: Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus

[zachacham]

thanks for the scoope

[Alpha2004]

This makes me really happy. For some unknown reason. :wacko:

[madnuke]

Well im glad its back, it was an inovation and it was good if you had a high resolution or a big monitor/dual monitors.

And to those that are going to go 'omg liek it was teh ghey sux omg use linux' dont post.

well done MS :happy:

[saxondale.]

Well the bar seemed like it would bug me from pictures, but im glad its not on by default, and post beta 1 hey, when is that out?

thank god i have a wide screen monitor

[Koolslacker]

I don't really care. I can't see myself using this unless they make something amazing that I have never seen bofore.

[kaffra]

if its just an option that can be enable/dissabled whats the problem

[nX07]

Im happy they have put it back!

Great! :D

[TwIzTiD_Juggalo]

what a scary thought. at least it isn't on by default so that's a plus.

[TheWahbinator]

I thought most of it was WinFS dependant.

But whatever, it's a great feature anyway, even for those without widescreen monitors.

[Hurmoth]

Yay! Now I just hope they didn't add the memory leak back :rofl:

[Makeshift Hammer]

Happy it's there for others.....happy for me it's off by drefault. :p

[Novaoblivion]

Yay I really liked the sidebar :)

[radsqd]

well not a fan of sidebar but i see it can useful for dual displays or soemthing like that

[Mx]

Nice :)

[Prosidius]

Glad it will be disabled by default. :)

[jadkins555]

I like using the sidebar when I use the MSN Premium software. It has some annoyances though so here's hoping that the Vista sidebar doesn't share the same bugs.

[_I am Reptar]

sweet

[Lasker]

hopefully will be amazing!

[Colin-uk Veteran]

i knew they would add it back, i probably wouldnt use it as i dont see any point to it :ermm:

:p

[Lee G. Veteran]

I liked the sidebar - thanks for the heads up :)

[protoss_chaos]

Trillian is my sidebar, but i am glad to see it back... Especially if IM clients like trillian end up making sidebar plugins like miranda did...

[Lee]

Excellent news. ;)

[highof75]

This really makes me happy. I thought the sidebar was an excellent revolution that had many, many good uses.

[Deron Dantzler]

Sidebar is great even on lower resolutions. I like it.

It just doesn't need to waste screen space whenever you maximize a window is all. It should remain "stuck" to the desktop.