Written on December 7, 2009 – 3:55 am | by CoolGadgetConcept |
Microsoft is the largest software producer in the world, with over 50.000 employees in several countries. It delivers the largest number of operating systems for personal computers, and some MS Windows systems, in its many variants.

Besides the operating systems, Microsoft has on the market a lot of gadgets that make our life in front of computers more interesting.

Speed test is one of Microsoft gadgets; this gadget shows you your hard drive activity and space, you can only see your battery charge status, your WiFi signal strength. You can download data transfers and you can upload them. This data information can be view in a graph mode and you have the possibility to see live what is happening or to see the results after. If you have something installed in your computer that slows him down you can see exactly what software make your computer slow down. You can personalize it by choosing between 73 backgrounds and 19 skins. You can monitor almost anything on your computer and it doesn't take a lot of space on your sidebar. It has an intuitive interface and it is very easy to use.

You if are a person who likes to stay well informed and you look up a lot of information on the internet the next Microsoft gadgets is everything you need. All search gadget allows you to search for information in 10 different search engines: Yahoo, Wikipedia, eBay, Google, YouTube, Weather, Dictionary, News and Big. The gadget can be personalized with 16 colorful skins. It only works if your internet browser is Internet Explorer, it doesn't work with Opera or Mozilla Firefox.

If you like to travel a lot or if you need to travel a lot and you don't have the spear time to watch the weather channels on TV, the next gadgets is for you. WeatherBug is able to receive live weather conditions. With this gadget you will have weather conditions form anywhere in the world. You can get detailed radar, severe weather alerts, weather cameras and forecasts on your computer sidebar. The WeatherBug has 8.000 tracking stations, therefore you will always be well informed in the weather aspect.



Another Microsoft gadget is Side Player. This gadgets searches and plays about two million audio tracks. With this gadget you are able to listen and play any audio track from the desktop; you can do that without searching on the Internet or launching any type of browser. All the music is for free and you can search it using just the gadget.

With this gadget you don't need to download music anymore, just type the name of the artist you want to hear or the name of a track and the SidePlayer will look up for it in about 20 seconds.

XM Online Radio is a gadget that allows you to listen to online radio, to search albums from eBay, YouTube or Amazon. It is a free gadget, with a friendly easy to use interface. You have full control of it: a Stop button, a Play button, Channels and Volume. If you want to find lyrics of a song it make an instant lookup, you can search up eBay products or more information about a song you are listening on Amazon.



If you like to keep track of your system information the SysInfo gadget can help you do that. This gadget uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to read the computer information. It is available in English and Hungarian, you can change between languages and you can adjust which information you want to see. You can modify the size of the gadget; it has a changeable font type. The gadget helps you bringing all the information together. At a glance of an eye you can see if your cpu is overworked or your disk is filling up.

System Control is a gadget that has many different functions including: Restart, Lock, Shutdown, Switch, Hibernate, Task Manager, Run, Control Panel, LogOff, Command Prompt, Sleep, User and Screensaver.  You have the possibility to re-order the button or to enable/disable them. You can customize it, because it comes with 10 themes, 5 different button styles and 3 types of sizes. It is powerful, sleek and small.

Ultimate Explorer is a gadget that allows you to search 50 websites right from your desktop. You can search Google, Digg, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, Drugstore, PriceRunne, WatherBug and also your favorite social networks, news web sites, WoW sites and so much more. You have options for you search, custom configurations and themes. You are able to choose between 4 different themes, different sizes, calendar and events web search link groups, date and time. It is easy, clean and very simple to use.



Another gadget you might like is Messenger Gadget. The gadget is using Windows Live Messenger to get its information. This one has a few negative aspects, sometimes you will see that the gadget doesn't show some contacts in the groups they should be. When you install the gadget, if you don't have installed Windows Live Messenger on your computer you will that the gadget won't work. This gadget allows you to see your contact's status, to change your status and to start a chat session. It is easy to work with, just double-click on a contact if you want to start a conversation and if you want to modify a contact's nickname just right-click on the contact.

These are some of the Microsoft gadgets you can find on the internet and that really work, but you can search for more if you haven't found one to match your needs.