Vista?s sidebar ? a waste of space?
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| Apart from the new Aero interface, this was to be the other big visual
| sensation in Vista ? one of the first things you see when you fire up the
| machine.
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| We saw it. And then we moved on.
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| The whole point of the Sidebar, or any equivalent application, is to
| provide an always-up visual zone for easy access to mini-apps. It does,
| however, rely on two main requirements ? first that the content is in
| someway useful and second that the area itself is as unobtrusive as
| possible.
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http://www.apcstart.com/site/jbannan/2006/07/665/vistas-sidebar-a-waste-of-space
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