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Quote: Originally Posted by arkhi  It should be noted that Gadgets still works on Windows 8. While you may not find a way to open gadgets, opening a .gadget file will cause the said gadget to pin on your desktop. Microsoft was busy ripping out all kinds of stuff like this AFTER the last preview. We really don't know what will or won't work in the RTM  (At least not till wed at the earliest) |
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| 30 Jul 2012 | #42 |
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| 31 Jul 2012 | #43 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by windude99 Honestly, all of the software on all of my computers has atleast 1 vulnerability. Every piece of software that has ever existed can be hacked in some way. I'm not going to shut off gadgets because of this little thing that won't ever affect me. I have up to date antivirus and I am careful with what I download, so Microsoft, I'm NOT turning off my gadgets no matter how much you want me to.      |
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| 31 Jul 2012 | #44 |
| | Honestly, all of the software on all of my computers has atleast 1 vulnerability. Every piece of software that has ever existed can be hacked in some way. I'm not going to shut off gadgets because of this little thing that won't ever affect me. I have up to date antivirus and I am careful with what I download, so Microsoft, I'm NOT turning off my gadgets no matter how much you want me to. I'm with windude on this one as my Kaspersky is really good at picking them especially from Adobe and Java - which I guess are fair game to the hackers as we all well nearly all use those sites eh?  |
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Quote: Originally Posted by fseal
Quote: Originally Posted by arkhi It should be noted that Gadgets still works on Windows 8. While you may not find a way to open gadgets, opening a .gadget file will cause the said gadget to pin on your desktop. Microsoft was busy ripping out all kinds of stuff like this AFTER the last preview. We really don't know what will or won't work in the RTM (At least not till wed at the earliest) |
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