Windows 7 Taskbar

by thebeebs 9. January 2009 06:48

Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows.

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team members Chaitanya Sareen, Trish Miner, and Stephan Hoefnagles as we present the new Windows 7 Taskbar functionality and motivations. This video shows what is new in the Windows 7 desktop and taskbar, and the common user tasks and scenarios that are simplifying.

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Comments (6) -

thebeebs

1/9/2009 7:03:31 AM #

I love that light effect that takes the hue from the icon an uses it for the lights behind the icon glass when the user moves over the task bar.

thebeebs

1/9/2009 7:05:59 AM #

I also like the way the the start button is the same size as the other icons on the task bar

thebeebs

1/9/2009 7:06:26 AM #

I'm not sure if a launch bar and a window switcher is a good idea

thebeebs

1/9/2009 7:07:37 AM #

Multiple thumbnails is super cool as you hover over the item. This thing feels like a an ivolution from vista rather than throwing it away and starting it again.

thebeebs

1/9/2009 7:08:37 AM #

Show desktop is great in the bottom righthand corner. I always lose it on windows xp.

thebeebs

1/9/2009 7:22:02 AM #

Wow task bar picks up IE tabs and shows both of them... so cool!

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