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programmer_man on Sept 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Previe...

No, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop

Kind of related, it was a COM control you could stretch over your whole desktop, that received push notifications.

Also, I believe it was TOTALLY secure.

Edit: Dang it, I missed where they said "and it made ie the king of browsers." -- Yes, ActiveX

cbhl on Sept 29, 2016 [–]

I was 8 when Active Desktop came out -- I used it to put Neopets on the desktop of my computer.

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