On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Wayne Johnson wrote:
AD lets you place things like stock tickers & sports scores
on the desktop that are updated automagically as long as one
has an active internet connection. There used to be an app by
the name of PointCast that I liked that updated news stories
& the like according to your preference that I thought was
much better than AD but as we know the best product does NOT
always win. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_(dotcom)>
Yup. PointCast was one of the "targets" MS was aiming for with
the Active Desktop.
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop>
History
"The introduction of the Active Desktop marked Microsoft's
attempt to capitalize on the short-lived push technology trend
lead by PointCast. Active Desktop placed a number of "channels"
on the user's computer desktop that provided
continually-updated information like news headlines and stock
quotes without requiring the user to open a Web browser."
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