With Apple Computer threatening to push his product aside, longtime Mac developer Arlo Rose has moved his Konfabulator over to Windows.
Back in June, Apple announced that it would offer a feature called Dashboard as part of its next version of Mac OS X, code-named Tiger. The feature, which allows easy access to a variety of small applications called widgets, is remarkably similar to Konfabulator. Rose's software also uses the term widgets to describe the types of plug-in programs it enables, small graphical applications that sit on the desktop and offer stock quotes, weather information, and so on.
Rose, who once worked at Apple and now heads up a small company called Pixoria, said the new version will be available Monday. "We're all diehard Macintosh developers here, but we recognize that Windows is the dominant platform," Rose said in a statement. "When you have a great idea, you want more than 2 percent of the global market to have access to it."
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