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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, Windows 98's "Active Desktop" was pretty much this.

Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they're sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we'll finally accept it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Except you Active Desktop wasn't on by default and was easily turned off in even the cheapest version of the OS.