Enabling real-time content on a Windows desktop. Introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997 for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Web pages could be turned into desktop items that were updated ...

An illustration of a "system and method for computing a desktop picture" The latest vague patent filing to turn up from Apple is the answer to the question every Mac user has not been asking: when ...

How can you make your Windows desktop more useful-for example, have it deliver the news? Well, via a generally neglected (and discarded!) Desktop feature called Active Desktop, which has been around ...

An enhancement to the Mac OS X operating system under development by Apple looks to pave the way for active desktop pictures, or desktop backgrounds that can include motion graphics and alter ...

Anyone who used computers in 1997 might get a feeling of deja vu when they use one of Internet Explorer 8’s most-hyped new features, WebSlices. WebSlices seems like nothing so much as a clone of the ...

Does anyone know how to get active desktop into NT4? Looking at the MSKB tells me that it originally came with part of Windows update in IE release 4, but you try getting your hands on that now!