Is this the new Windows 7 taskbar

[Robbie Ride]

Found these two pictures on WinFuture

PDC: Windows 7 - First photos the new Taskbar

[Hendrick]

How come "leaked photos" are always blurry?

I wouldn't count on it... in all honestly, it looks like a modified taskbar from PCLinuxOS

http://www.desktoplinux.com/files/article105/pclinuxos-0.jpg

Change the clock color and the icons, turn off the multi-desktop, and there you have it. Not too hard by any stretch of the imagination.

[Panda X]

Probably. MS has been tossing the concept for a while. It first made a public appearance at D6. You can see HR shots of it at the Win Super Site.

[giga Veteran]

A mashup of a taskbar and dock?

[vertigosity]

I'd say it's Vista resized to two rows high, and quick launch set to large icons mode.... and a crashed app-switcher portion ;)

[.Joa]

these are genuine shots :)

[Ayepecks]

I've seen this concept before, actually. It was on one of the official things.

I don't like it from what I've seen, personally.

[Mikee99]

How come "leaked photos" are always blurry?

I know right? If you are going to leak, then leak with a passion!

[sharp65]

I do believe these are genuine, but we shall find out tomorrow :)

[Robbie Ride]

I think this taskbar looks alot better than the current one in Windows Vista, i don't like the default black colour scheme, although i wish they would change the Start Menu a bit more than planned.

Why not centre the Orb and Start Menu or completely redesign it instead of refining it.

[Mr. Dee]

Yes, its genuine, the Taskbar features rearrangeable buttons with pop out thumbnails I have been informed.

[afusion]

It's 2008.. people still using 1.3mp cameras? :laugh:

[darren89]

It's 2008.. people still using 1.3mp cameras? :laugh:

haha....taken from a mobile phone, its still fine. :D

hmm...to me it doesn't look much different from the taskbar in vista.

[Ruti]

i dont like that taskbar it takes too much space.

[Antaris Veteran]

You may or not remember this article @ istartedsomething.com

[-Hiroshi-]

Glad to see the new taskbar, pretty nice.

[tsupersonic]

It's too KDE like

[Sethos]

I hope that won't make it into the final, it's big and ugly!

[gigapixels Veteran]

I like it!

[Kronir]

Too big for my taste. But at least they're trying to think of something different. If that's it, though, I hope I can go back to a small Vista-like one with just some Quick Launch icons...

[George P Global Moderator]

I dunno what to say about that unless I see it in action. I think since the desktop is "3D" now that the taskbar should be as well.

Minimizing apps which then look like little thumbs at the bottom insted of just a small icon and text would be nice. I dunno really, but you have to figure they can do so much with WPF and so on in there.

[Denholm]

Looks good. Hope the new taskbar is in Beta 1.

[trek]

Looks good. Hope the new taskbar is in Beta 1.

I don't think so. One of the MS Partner videos had a PM mention the new taskbar but he said it would only be shown off at PDC, not included in the M2 build given out to attendees.

[Kristian]

They're giving out M3 at PDC, not beta 1. So they might yet ship the new taskbar in Beta 1

[Denholm]

I don't think so. One of the MS Partner videos had a PM mention the new taskbar but he said it would only be shown off at PDC, not included in the M2 build given out to attendees.

Umm. :unsure: that's why I said that I hope the new taskbar makes it into Beta 1.

I read that an 'M3' build is being given to developers at PDC, I assume an M3 build still comes before Beta1.