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Those are all pretty much the points made by the young people who came up with the plan for the campaign and got it launched. Quick video of them, and Al Aynsley-Green talking about it over here: http://www.pageflakes.com/buzzoffcampaign BTW: If anyone based in the UK knows the location of one of these devices - there's also a form on that page where you can let us know about it... Ta muchly

Pageflakes is a good alternative to iGoogle.

Aren't there a huge plethora of sites that allow you to basically collect little applets and RSS feeds for a customized home feed?

Probably, yes. When I saw the description I was reminded of PageFlakes, which uses ASP.NET / Atlas:
http://www.pageflakes.com/

(NetVibes appears to be using PHP in combination with an AJAX framework.)

Possibly Slashdot-worthy because NetVibes is getting all the traffic, trouncing PageFlakes and ProtoPage:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ajax_homepage s.php

Why is that relevent to Windows?

Is someone suggesting that Web 2.0 will replace Windows? Are they saying the web will be the OS?

Web 2.0 is nothing if you have a emphasis disconnected computer. Web 2.0 apps are nothing if any number of things go wrong with a connected system. Web 2.0 is slower than snot, even with broadband, hell, just look at PageFlakes, one of the top W2.0 portals, it's buggy as Hell if there's a hiccup in any of the connected systems.

Web 2.0 is not relevent to a discussion about OS. It's a pretty buzz word that authors use to show they are hip to the new trend. Toss it in, throw it away.

Windows will continue to be relevent as long as it has at least the same market share in desktop and server deployments that Linux and Apple have.

and, fwiw, my web-app Bitty Browser works as a module/widget/gadget for them (and some others)... -Scott

I am sorry, and I am apologizing up front and will probably have my karma slammed, but I do have to comment.

I really have to question the legitimacy of this 'Ask Slashdot' article, and am wondering how the editors let it slip through. The article is either a fake, or the person submitting it is a piss-poor tester.

How hard would it have been to install the IE7 beta on a single machine to check the rendering of AJAX elements?

I have IE7 installed on a test machine that we use to test web apps. I also use it for much of my daily browsing. As a result, I have a list of items that IE7 just won't work with, chief among them are SharePoint event calendar rendering, and Microsoft Producer. It has not broken against AJAX that I've run into, and I use Pageflakes as my homepage on that machine.

So, the poster is faking a "my-company-wanted-to-use-the-latest-greatest-but- we-are-afraid-MS-will-break" article, or his company is paying him much too much for his perceived skills.

Really, editors, you should have caught this.

Netvibes, Protopage, Pageflakes, Live.com, and a bonus Google Personalized

Ah hypertext links. What wonders have Tim Burners Lee wrought. And look, I'm anonymous so no karma whoring.