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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Sep 2008 17:57 UTC

Back when Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green demonstrated Windows 7's multitouch framework during the All Things Digital conference, many noted the different taskbar that she was using on the demo machine. When Walt Mossberg asked her about it, she smiled and replied "It's something we're working on for Windows 7 and I'm not supposed to talk about right now, today..." Personally, I was quite intrigued by this revamped taskbar, seeing how static and old the current one already is (Windows 95, people). Microsoft has remained mum on the issue ever since, but last Tuesday, the silence was broken when Microsoft's Chaitanya Sareen posted a detailed entry on the taskbar on the Engineering Windows 7 blog.

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RE[2]: Bad lesson

by WorknMan on Fri 26th Sep 2008 16:15 UTC in reply to "RE: Bad lesson"

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I would gander to say that quite a few people would love to have their media player at their fingertips like that, just not at the cost of making their application buttons that much smaller.

Media players that don't suck have global hotkey support, so you can control them across the OS. Plus, most keyboards these days have the media keys built right in, which kind of makes the toolbar unnecessary.

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