Windows 8 will not Gadgets

From the final version of Windows 8 will disappear "gadgets" - mini-applications that the user can add to your desktop for quick access to all kinds of online and local information and tools. This was reported by a computer blog The Verge with reference to the Chinese resource Win8China. The lack of gadgets editors Win8China found by reading one of the last builds of Windows 8. However, in public pre-release versions of the system, including the Release Preview, gadgets maintained. It is assumed that Microsoft decided to remove from Windows 8 gadgets because they perform functions in part to the application interface Metro. Official statements about the gadgets Microsoft has not yet done so.

Gadgets first appeared in the operating system Windows Vista, which was published in 2006. They were located on a separate panel on the right or the left side of the screen. In Windows 7, which was released three years later, the gadgets are located directly on the desktop. In Windows 8 will not be as familiar to users, and other elements of the previous versions, including the "Start" button, which became the hallmark of Windows, and graphic effects Aero Glass. Their absence in the final version of the system, which is due out before the end of 2012, confirmed officially.