Object Desktop has been on the leading edge of desktop technology since its initial release in 1999. Features that are considered “standard” today showed up on Object Desktop first – often years in advance. Years ahead Here are a few examples of innovations that showed up first on Object Dekstop: • ZIP files behaving like folders • alpha-blended shadows under windows • desktop widgets and gadgets • GUI skinning • scripted desktop automation • animated wallpaper • desktop icon organizing • digital distribution clients • changing all the windows icons • and much more Some of the things mentioned above probably seem impossible that one program suite could be where so many common technologies first showed up. Example 1: digital distribution clients For example, digitral distribution clients. Today, with programs like Steam and Impulse, not counting all the other programs these days that update themselves (Windows Live updating, Windows update, Adobe updater, etc.) that the first program suite to do this was Object Desktop back in 1999 with “Component Manager”. It led the way in showing how you could release software that could be continually enhanced seamlessly. Example 2: Shadows, Widgets, and more While Macintosh users were claiming Microsoft “stole” the idea of gadgets from Apple or MacOS developers, it was Object Desktop that first introduced users to user-created scripted objects (widgets) back in 2000 – 3 years before it showed up elsewhere.