Ryan Gregg, Program Manager for Microsoft Outlook, has announced on his blog two new Outlook Gadgets for Windows Sidebar, both of which bring Outlook to your desktop for easy, real-time access.  Go here to download the Outlook Upcoming Appointments Gadget, and here for the Outlook Tasks Gadget. These two gadgets are a great example of ...

Last week we'd mentioned the Windows Vista Countdown Gadget -- now we've gone and added it to our site so that it appears on every page ! Go here to get the gadget for your site, Live.com page and Windows Live Space.

On 30 January 2007, Microsoft will be making Windows Vista available to the world at large.  This event goes by different monikers:  ''general availability,'' ''GA'' and ''retail availability'' are some of them.  But no matter what it's called, lots of people -- I for one -- are looking forward to that day.  As excitement ...