MSNBC has a story on how widgets are starting to take off. With Apple's release of MacOS X Tiger with its "dashboard" feature, some pundits are thinking that widgets may have reached critical mass.

The same thing happened in the skinning world with the release of Windows XP.  The basic skinning features in XP helped take Stardock's WindowBlinds to the next level in popularity.  Will the same happen with widgets?