What is an active area?
Active Desktop® is the main feature in some older versions of Microsoft Windows® and Internet Explorer®. This feature allowed certain types of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to function dynamically on the user's desktop. The Active Desktop® was available in a certain version of Windows 95®, Windows 98® and some Windows XP® versions, as well as the Internet Explorer® 4 to 6 version. This feature has not liked many users, and therefore it was rarely used, but its existence was the main point in Microsoft® Antiturst. Each of these channels was connected to a different HTML source. This made it possible to make a web-content, such as news, weather or stock prices, to appear on the user's desktop whenever the computer was connected to the Internet.
The later version of the Active Desktop® has been expanded to include code types permitted in active programs. These programs were able to change the appearance of many features on desktop computers, especially wallpapers and standard desktop icons. These other features workedOn the layer below other desktop programs, which allows multiple programs to work on each other. Replaced information used a considerable amount of Internet connection. In addition, the constantly running applications functioned as a separate program, often fitting into the system. As a result, the Active Desktop® was abandoned in a newer version of Windows® and Internet Explorer®.
Later versions of Windows® have different programs that may seem similar to active desktop®, but are actually completely different. In Windows Vista®, Sidebar Windows Sidebar® allows you to display the active web content on the desktop. In this case, eacaplication H is integrated into a single program and reduces the desired use of memory width and bandwidth. Windows 7® has a similar feature called Desktop Gadgets® that works in the same way, but is not limited in space.
in antitrust court proceedings against Microsoft® playingl This program key role. One of the main points in the court proceedings was that Microsoft® used Internet Explorer® as a means to use the Internet and move users to the Windows® operating system. By disabling other operating systems from using Internet Explorer & Reg, it forced people to choose.
Microsoft® quoted that Internet Explorer® was an integrated part of the Windows® operating system. The company showed it with two main arguments. First, the code used by the system is built into the browser. Second, Active Desktop®, the key Windows® operating system feature is created directly to Internet Explorer®.