Winners of the Silverlight Gadget Awards Announced

At Xtopia 08, Microsoft today honoured the most original Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets for the first time with the “Silverlight Gadget Awards.”

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In the “Wow” category, awards went to creative gadgets based on Silverlight 2 that offered consumers a high level of fun and entertainment. The “Business” category, by contrast, focused on innovative Vista Sidebar gadgets created by companies for their customers.

The winners are:

Business category:

1st prize: Visual Bridges—Interactive Film Gadget

Finalists:

DevWare GmbH—TimeTracker Silverlight Gadget

netzhaus AG—Vista Sidebar Gadget for Dynamics CRM 4.0

WoW category:

1st prize: Power Economizer GmbH—Gadget for intelligent home control

2nd prize: Christian Zech—System Monitor 3 Gadget

3rd prize: nacamar GmbH—Radio Player

The Silverlight Gadget Awards were organised by Microsoft together with dpa and MEDION.

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