Chaitanya Sareen, Windows Team at Microsoft, has produced a blog post detailing the new Windows 7 Taskbar.In the post Sareen highlights the following areas of evolution:
- Refreshed Look
- Pinning
- Unification
- Interactive, Grouped Thumbnails
- Aero Peek
- Jump Lists
- Custom Window Switchers
- Thumbnail Toolbars
- Notification Area
- Overlay Icons and Progress Bars
- Color Hot-track
- Start Menu
If you are interested in the Windows 7 development or the new taskbar then it's a worth while read and explains some of the design decisions that Microsoft have made.
If you're interested in all the features being demonstrated on video then we recorded several videos at PDC where members of the Windows team demonstrated the new Taskbar, you can view them here.
that already is there with 6801 [unlocked of course]
Yes we did
And a link (if direct linking is allowed?)
Interesting, the similarities between the Superbar and the OS X dock must mean that Microsoft hacked Apple and stole their source code!
Next up from Sacha, Windows has code from (Insert) because both use an LDA operand!
Last edited by Athernar on 21 Nov 2008 - 17:08
Next up from Sacha, Windows has code from (Insert) because both use an LDA operand!
lol ... he was sarcastic (i think)
Next up from Sacha, Windows has code from (Insert) because both use an LDA operand!
lol ... he was sarcastic (i think)
Microsoft even said they were "stealing from themselves." Frankly, it's good to see very old ideas being reused and fixed up.
And a link (if direct linking is allowed?)
Um . . . aren't those just icons on the desktop, with the open Windows covering most of the desktop?
Than again I've never used Windows 1.0, and I don't recall Windows 3.1 having a dock-like feature.
Right? Wrong?
Than again I've never used Windows 1.0, and I don't recall Windows 3.1 having a dock-like feature.
Right? Wrong?
No it was a bar. Windows 1 didn't have a desktop to my knowledge. But that bar was taken out in Windows 2 if Im not mistaken.
Who wrote this blog post, lol?
Who wrote this blog post, lol?
Not sure what you mean. We've had icon overlays, like, forever.
Twas a poke at the grammar, methinks.
What is?
In other words, Microsoft solved many problems in the Windows Taskbar by implementing the same features as found in the OS X Dock (unified launch / switch, overlays, application menus, etc.)
Live previews and Jump lists/menus, for example, are MS' answer to Stacks and Expose. But without the visual comfort and organization offered by Spaces. OS X has had a Stacks list view option in the Dock (as well as fan and grid) for a while now.
You can hate Apple because of their marketing, that's fine. But the Superbar is only innovative in that it's new in Windows, not in the industry.
But the Mac does not have unified launch/switch, and does not have anything like Jump Lists.
Jump Lists are nothing like stacks in OS X. Stacks are just Apple's answer to folder toolbands that that Taskbar has supported since Win95 + IE 4.0.
It can be made smaller, apparently.
In any case, from what I've seen it's better than what Windows had before.
Have you tried it?
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