Woot Woot, Google Desktop 4 baby. I don’t like the new skin I must admit and the gadgets are annoying but it looks pretty solid in the way it displays search results. I did put up a few gadgets that integrate in the sidebar.

Nice find.

You’re right. This has to be very disheartening for Microsoft developers. You’re stuck in your office coding this “next” interface that nobody gets to see, trying to fit the pixels, blending and alignment+float just right. You get delayed over and over and over.. until someone else copies you and releases it to the public.

I’m surprised there isn’t a bigger exodus from Microsoft’s Longhorn teams. Google is really starting to make them irrelevant.

I find widgets very useful! Yahoo has a better selection than Google though. I have 3 widgets on my laptop at work - an RSS reader, a sticky notes widget (post-its for your desktop), and the weather widget. Handy things!