Yawn!
From: IceTV Sales <sales@icetv.com.au>
Subject: New IceTV Widget & Vista Gadget Coming Soon
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:10:41 +1100
.... including 9 Vista sidebar gadgets. In my experience the Vista gadget platform has a long way to go.
I would not be bragging about the complexity of these 9 gadgets you have created.
I would also point out to you that the Vista Gadget patform is not going anywhere soon and this is the base of the Vista Gadget platform and will remain that way for many years to come, like it or not it is what it is and if you have chosen that IceTV Gadgets are your baby and you simply don't unerstand the platform it would be best that you inform management that this should be handed over to a developer that can inderstand the Windows Vista platform or have the Gadget development outsourced.
With all due respect, even creating a poor implementation of our current IceTV Remote widget would be near impossible.
No it wouldn't, your problem is that you cannot work out an authentication platform for Windows Vista Gadget and the IceTV content, you are worried that this content would then get re-published all over the internet. No great problem with you wanting to protect 'your intelectual property'.
So again... we'll watch the developments on Vista like a hawk.
As stated above I hope that for the past 12 months you have watched Vista get released, I hope that you watched Vista SP1 be released, I would have hoped that by now you should understand that a new 'Vista Sidebar Special Service Pack' is in no way near nor will one evr probably be released.
How long do you need to sit idle and just watch?
So we want a Vista gadget too, but it's just not a good idea yet.
Get used to it, even when Service Pack 2 is released for Windows Vista the core application coding for Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets will not change so with all of your gadget expertise and trying to be the IceTV Go-Go-Gadget man it is I think time you let go and gave it to someone that is capable of performing this task.
Sheer ignorance is not the answer to the issue of a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget for IceTV
Subscribers.