Kirsten's Taskbar

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[onanidaily]

What ?? Windows 7 has a taskbar ? Gee, kind of like Win 95.

[WindowsVideos]

@onanidaily Actually the taskbar has undergone a huge transformation for Windows 7. Here's a MSDN blog post that probably over-explains the changes, take a look.

blogs.msdn. com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happ­y-anniversary-windows-on-the-e­volution-of-the-taskbar.aspx

[onanidaily]

@WindowsVideos Thank you for the Microsoft party line response but different is not always better !

Why reinvent the UI wheel with every OS release. Vista was a travesty and now 7 has followed suit.

Bells and whistles do not make things easier to understand. They just clutter up the UI and require more resources.

Stop writing OS's for two year olds and go back to writing them for your bread and butter - the business world.

[WindowsVideos]

@onanidaily The developers describe their work as evolutionary, not revolutionary. They're not trying to reinvent the wheel, just make it function better. We feel the taskbar changes have definitely made improvements in efficiency and design and improve the experience for most users.

The majority of feedback from users has been positive so far, but of course there's bound to be criticism. We're definitely always open to feedback though...what are some of the main changes you'd like to see?

[Arqui3D]

Gotta love how they parody reenactments (They always use better-looking people for reenactments).

[iLifeguy]

and her neighbor uses an iphone 4 :D

[Denon333dash888]

@onanidaily You do realise that Windows controls over 90% of the market of computers, correct? That means that almost anyone would be using Microsoft products, whether it being a 5 year old drawing on Paint programmes, a 25 year old writing his resume for a new job, a 40 year old business man or a 65 year old playing the pre-installed chess programme in Windows 7. Translation? Of course Microsoft develops all those programmes! And all those features, too. To cater to 90%, think like the 90% do.

[lazarus921]

So let me get this straight. Microsoft stole those people's ideas and now is making profits from it. I'm outraged.

[ttmkilla]

@WindowsVideos you know whats great, i can do everything a pc user can do, and also do what a mac user can do, all you have to do is partition our mac harddrive and install windows 7, so i guess that makes me a pc/mac user to bad pc users cant do this, and im a mac

[AndrewDeLong]

@TheAppleComputerFan

Lol, it's called a taskbar. Windows has had it since 1995. The layout is different, but the baseline function is the same. Call it a dock, big flippin deal. If it smells like a task bar looks like a task bar, and acts like a task bar, then guess what buddy....IT'S A TASK BAR.  Fact is, the Windows task bar is still more representative of its earliest version, than it is of the "dock."

[TheAppleComputerFan]

It's called the dock, and Mac OS X had it in 2001!!!

[Nintendoboy888]

@Arqui3D dang thats what i tough when i watched

[onanidaily]

@WindowsVideos Vista went further off the deep end by making simple operations more confusing to people who had used previous Microsoft OS's. (Example : Display properties ???)

Windows 7 may have addressed these issues but I doubt it.

In short, change the kernel as much as you want but retain the ability to interact with it in a fashion that helps people to be more efficient and does not require a learning curve for each new release. (BTW - This applies to Office releases as well.)

[onanidaily]

@WindowsVideos The main changes I would like to see ? No changes.

I have not migrated to Windows 7 (and probably won't for a few years) so I apologize if what I am about to say has already been incorporated into the OS.

Give people an opportunity to select the UI they are familiar with.

XP gave users the ability to select the "classic" theme which was fortunate as the teletubby theme was confusing to many longtime users.