The ‘Wow’ Effect The Wow Starts now!

during the development of Windows Longhorn (Soon to become Windows Vista) in 2003 Microsoft introduced Windows Sideshow. one of the most unique features Windows Vista had

Windows Sideshow displays information such as RSS feeds e-mail and other things on a separate display

The product seemed cool Microsoft was even planing a hole ecosystem for it. There was even a windows media center remote with sideshow

There are different types of sideshow displays ranging from single line lcd’s to a full color lcd

There were a handful of sideshow compatible devices released. Like the ASUS ScreenDUO

The ASUS W5Fe (AKA the most popular sideshow device)

And the Dell XPS 420

Sadly for windows sideshow it wasn’t popular and support was removed in Windows 8.1. But you can still try Windows Sideshow out

I have archived some sideshow gadgets which you can find here via Retro Network’s FTP directory and if you can’t find a real windows sideshow device you can always download MS-Sideshow Device for android via Google play

The Year was 2007 Microsoft Was about to release a total overhaul of the Windows Brand. Its called Windows Vista. And even know it was a failure for Microsoft. It did some things right

For instance it introduced a absolutely Beautiful interface called

Windows Aero

Sure most PC’s from that time can’t run Windows Aero very well. for  those that can run it. It looks like a piece of art

There’s also the pretty cool gimmick called

Flip 3D

It comes with Windows Aero and won’t work on the Aero basic theme. It  is pretty useful if you want to see what window you want to switch to.

Packaged with Vista are some cool wallpapers

And if you are one of those guys that forked out $400 for Vista Ultimate.  You get 2 exclusive wallpapers

Also new to Vista is animated wallpapers called.

Dreamscenes

Windows Dreamscene was only available via Windows Ultimate Extras (defunct as of 2008) And it provided users to have a Animated wallpaper on there desktop using a .wmv or .gif

Even know i can’t show any Dreamscenes on this post i uploaded all the Dreamscene wallpapers to my FTP directory click here to check them out

In Short Windows Vista paved the way for its successor Windows 7  which ironed out all the problems Vista had