Microsoft Gadgets icon
Microsoft Gadgets icon

Microsoft Gadgets

Microsoft Gadgets are light-weight single-purpose applications that can sit on the users computer desktop, or are hosted on a web page. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments without modification, but this...

Microsoft Gadgets screenshot 1

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Windows
Discontinued

Due to a security vulnerability, Microsoft has retired Gadgets feature after Windows 7.

-
No reviews
4likes
0comments
0news articles

Features

Suggest and vote on features
  1.  Widgets

 Tags

  • gadgets

Microsoft Gadgets News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent activities

No activities found.

Microsoft Gadgets information

  • Developed by

    US flagMicrosoft
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    10 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Popular alternatives

View all
Microsoft Gadgets was added to AlternativeTo by ondrapelech on and this page was last updated .
No comments or reviews, maybe you want to be first?
Post comment/review

What is Microsoft Gadgets?

Microsoft Gadgets are light-weight single-purpose applications that can sit on the users computer desktop, or are hosted on a web page. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments without modification, but this is currently not the case.