Comments on: Evolution of the taskbar in Windows 7 – “Superbar”

By: Windows 7 features | Windows Edition Blog

Windows 7 features | Windows Edition Blog — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:43:43 +0000

[...] that lay out some of the improvements. The Istartedsomething blog has a great explanation of the new Taskbar. They discuss the new shake feature. This feature is when you shake an open window all other [...]

By: Jon Peate

Jon Peate — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:36:47 +0000

that is not correct it is a glass bar that is as thin as XP the orb is like windows vista and the orb is not glass

By: Windows 7 – my born-again laptop « ::Pete’s Blog::

Windows 7 – my born-again laptop « ::Pete’s Blog:: — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:36:23 +0000

[...] OS than XP as well. I had finally found an XP replacement. Certain features (like the super taskbar and the ridiculously short boot times) made 7 even more of a joy to use. Around Christmas 08, [...]

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:35:13 +0000

Looking good, Windows 7.

On a side note, the Mac OS X dock is not a copy of the Windows taskbar. It’s a copy of Nextstep’s very own err… dock, with Mac OS X being a direct descendant of Nextstep, not the classic Mac OS. Things like column view in Finder were also copied from Nextstep. And I believe Nextstep’s dock was released before the Windows 95 taskbar, and other OSs had earlier versions of the dock as well.

Apple should have improved on the application menu instead of replacing it with the dock.

By: james

james — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:41:57 +0000

that gap between the clock and end is a show desktop button so you don’t have to look at the ugly icon

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:39:50 +0000

Lol, hey guys… this time it’s not about the look that is copied from os x, it’s the behaviour. so i have applications in my “superbar”, and when i start them, they don’t get an extra icon, it stays the same but gets a frame (wow, that rhymes )… sounds pretty much like the dock to me. And when an app has more than 1 window, these get grouped together into that 1 icon… and when i right-click on the icon, i get a menu to do app-specific stuff… sounds all pretty similar to the dock to me. i’m not an apple fanboy, i’m just mentioning the similarities here.

By: Von

Von — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:29:51 +0000

Not meant to be rude or anything but, i think there isn’t something completely new. Like it using still a taskbar, i think they should come up with something totally new, like a dock. This video showed features that are not that usefull, but instead are for amusement like the piano and the earth map. I was expecting more of a change on windows 7 , but i think it still is windows xp but with more make up than vista.

By: Sth

Sth — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:09:02 +0000

@Cullen D

We’re not talking about iPhone’s 2 finger gestures. The new MacBooks and MacBook Pros have even 4 finger gestures.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:15:03 +0000

Actually, Windows 7 has less system requirements than Vista. I am running Windows 7 build 7000 on VMware with 1gb of ram, 20 gb of hard disk, and allowing only single core cpu and it works as fast (maybe faster, didn’t do a benchmark test) as XP. And the “Superbar” is not a copy of the Dock in OS X. As everyone else had said, it’s functionality is different. And that small gap at the bottom of the Windows Orb, has been moved to the far right side of the taskbar in Windows 7 Beta 1 (build 7000).
Note I am writing all this in Windows 7 using Google Chrome and it works just fine, better than Vista!

By: jimmy8800

jimmy8800 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:00:55 +0000

This is called the superbar and all the computers that i have worked with that have this feature with the windows 7 prebeta are really really cool. I think that just this is enough to persuade ppl to buy this os. Windows 7 is really fast as well. I cannot see any performance difference between XP and 7. There are many bugs to be worked out though…