But this has to be soon. Otherwise, the developers will switch to developing windows gadgets...
On Feb 17, 3:43 pm, Rozieeeeeeeeee <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess if I were Google, about now I'd be developing my own operating > system.... Looking at Android, there is no reason why that couldn't > evolve into a fully fledged OS for the PC... with Google Desktop > functionality built into it of course..... > > On Feb 16, 6:35 pm, SM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Given that Windows Vista and the soon to be released Windows 7 have > > native support for gadgets, I'm wondering what is the future for > > Google Desktop. > > > Like many people, I held on tightly to Windows XP (no native gadget or > > desktop search support) and shunned Vista. But I've been using Windows > > 7 for a little while now and have to admit that, like many other > > reviewers out there, I actually kind of like it. I can see people > > adopting Win7 in ways they never did with Vista. > > > Windows 7 also has decent desktop search so I'm wondering about the > > future of Google on the desktop. I'd like to hear from someone at > > Google about the future direction for this product. > > > I've written 2 gadgets so far because they were things I wanted myself > > and I didn't have any other options other than Google as an XP user. > > But when Win7 gains users as I'm pretty sure it will, will anyone > > bother to download Google desktop? > > > As a related question, I'm wondering if Google would consider porting > > it's own gadgets like the extremely excellent Calendar gadget to > > Windows. That might be the best of both worlds. > > > SM > > ----http://madan.org- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Desktop Developer Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop-Developer?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
