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Re:Ask YC: Isn't the Chrome hype a little too much? by smanek on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @03:50PM (#294150)
Of course active desktop is still around.

It lives on in mac widgets, the vista sidebar, and so on.

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Re:Ask YC: Isn't the Chrome hype a little too much? by froo on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @04:39PM (#294212)
Ya, but the point is that it got actively taken out of MS's base browser product (I'm guessing because of their antitrust issues at the time, but I really dont know to be honest).

The core idea however had so much potential, even if the implementation wasn't the best. It was among the first true implementations of taking the web outside the browser, it was certainly the first I'd ever experienced.

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