Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jul 2007 09:53 UTC, submitted by drfelip
"An interesting patent application recently filed by Microsoft may offer a glimpse at the future of the Windows interface. The patent describes a 'method for managing windows in a display' that seems to describe a method of task switching that is neither Taskbar nor Expose, but something in between." It reminds me of a feature called 'iconify', where you can minimise windows into an icon on the desktop (as CDE has, for instance), a feature I miss in most modern desktop environments.
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2006-01-04
Is this a little like a mixup of the features of the OS X dock (status reporting in the icons) and the thumbnailing features of other OSes.
It seems a pretty simple evolution of the ideas present in all other OSes, and especially considering this sort of work was being put into GNOME (similar intention, different implementation) it seems a bit stupid that it can be patented.
To be honest though, it's not that great compared to the dock for instance. The dock seems a lot better than this idea would be.