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The Vista busy cursor

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The Vista busy cursor  is very interesting. Everyone I know liked it instantly. However, it deviates substantially from the hour-glass busy cursors we were used to.

The funny part is that everyone seems to call it by their own name. I sent an email to an internal alias to find out what is was called and got a the correct answer as Activity Spinner or Busy Cursor (hey it was from it's designer so it has to be correct :) ). But other people pitched in with there own names....

  1. Shiny CD
  2. Wormhole of death
  3. donut / Vista donut
  4. Energy circle
  5. The Pulse
  6. Whirlpool

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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2007
    I think the best name is "The Lord Ring", it is my treasure!!!Regards
  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2007
    Clearly it is the Spinning Bagel of Death... not in any way influenced by the Spinning Pizza of Death and circular indeterminate progress indicator of Mac OS X. ;-)
  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    December 12, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2009
    I wonder if it spins the opposite direction in the souther hemisphere...