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Outlook Gadgets Now Available

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I’m happy to announce that tonight the first two official Office gadgets went live on gallery.microsoft.com!  If you’re running Windows Vista and Outlook 2007 then I encourage you to go out and download the gadgets and get the experience of the Outlook To Do bar from the Windows SideBar.

I take a special interest in these because I was closely involved with the development effort and getting these gadgets out for everyone to use.  Thanks to the efforts of Melissa, Ted, Kent, and Radu for helping make these available.

Links to the gadgets:

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  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2006
    Ryan Gregg lets us know that the first "official" (meaning MS designed) Sidebar Gadgets for Outlook 2007

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    Very nice idea. BTW is it possible in RTM to change the transparency of the sidebar? These gadgets would be more useful if the sidebar was "always on top", but then I would want it to be transparent maybe at around 20% (when I hovered over it, it would go to 80%). Or instead of that, if it worked like TIP where if I move my mouse to a little thing on the right, the whole sidebar would slide out?

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    Ryan Gregg , Program Manager for Microsoft Outlook, has announced on his blog two new Outlook Gadgets

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    AdamB: I don't know if you can change the transparency of the whole sidebar (I can't seem to find a way) you can change the transparency of the individual gadgets.  For example, you can right click on a gadget, and set the opacity to 20%, and then when you hover over the gadget it will come back to 100%.  This might accomplish something similar to what you are looking for.

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    Over on Melissa's & Ryan's blog they announce the Outlook 2007 Sidebar gadgets for download:  Outlook

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    Where can I submit feedback? In any case, my feedback is that both gadgets, and in particular the tasks gadget do not look correct at 134dpi which is the resolution of my screen and consequently the DPI setting in my Vista installation.

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    Installed on Vista Ultimate RTM, with Office 2007 RTM. The upcomming appointments only showed the first appointment in my calendar, dated back in 2004 and I could see no way to alter it.

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    I just covered this info on my blog, good job Ryan

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    Brantgurga:  I'll take that feedback and see what we can do with it.  134dpi is typically higher than we normally test it with, so it's possible something is just messed up there.

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2006
    Dave: What regional settings are you using on your machine?

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2006
    Same problem as Dave here.. Using an english Vista RTM, but with danish regional settings.

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2006
    Over at Ryan Gregg's blog, PM for Microsoft Office, he announced the release of the first two official...

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2006
    What about one for new mail?

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2006
    for those using Vista in German, here is a link to a blog post showing how to change the settings which makes the gadgets work on german Vista. see http://www.vistablog.at/stories/2132/

  • Anonymous
    December 12, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2007
    A Vista Sidebar Gadget is a small app that runs in the "Sidebar" of Windows Vista. The gadget's goal