Enabling real-time content on a Windows desktop. Introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997 for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Web pages could be turned into desktop items that were updated ...

How can you make your Windows desktop more useful-for example, have it deliver the news? Well, via a generally neglected (and discarded!) Desktop feature called Active Desktop, which has been around ...

I don't use Active Desktop, but I know a few people that do. They right click on pictures they like (via IE) and select "Set as Desktop item..." and then IE puts that picture on their ...

An enhancement to the Mac OS X operating system under development by Apple looks to pave the way for active desktop pictures, or desktop backgrounds that can include motion graphics and alter ...

Does anyone know how to get active desktop into NT4? Looking at the MSKB tells me that it originally came with part of Windows update in IE release 4, but you try getting your hands on that now!