Active desktop
Active Desktop is a function of the Microsoft Windows operating system to display web pages directly on the desktop . It is part of the Active Platform . Users can place any websites or special channels as independent display blocks on the desktop. It is possible to have content from the Internet synchronized at regular intervals in order to bring the content up to date without having to call up the relevant website in the browser.
history
The Active Desktop was introduced with the completion of Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 in 1997 . According to Microsoft's argument, the Active Desktop should be the argument for buying Windows 98. With it, it was only possible in Windows 98 to use background images in JPG , GIF or PNG formats (although initially only by integrating them into an HTML document). Previously, only images in BMP format could be used. However, the fact that this additional feature took up a considerable part of the working memory of the computers of the time was often kept silent .
Current usage
Windows 2000 and Windows XP still include this function. However, Microsoft has not developed the feature further for several years.
This function has not been included since Windows Vista . It was replaced by the sidebar, under Windows 7 "Desktop Gadgets", with which you can display multimedia content and Windows Live gadgets.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Döring: Active Desktop. University of Cologne, October 14, 2000, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on February 27, 2014 (tuning tips for Windows 9x in the PC installation course).
- ↑ Windows Live Gadgets. In: Tutorial. Microsoft Germany, 2006, archived from the original on July 18, 2006 ; accessed on February 27, 2014 .