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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Why is the windows task bar limited to a single entity with everything required to be on it? Why can I separate the notifications area and put it in a different place? Why can't I use all four edges of my desktop for different items and control them separately?
Most of the time, I use a laptop with both the built-in screen and a larger LCD. I do most of my work on the LCD, and have lesser used things on the laptop screen. Particularly in that mode, I'd like to have the task band on the larger screen, but leave the notifications and QL on the laptop screen (although I wouldn't mind pulling my clock off notifications; I ended up installing FoxClocks so I had a clock on my browser, its better but not perfect).
One thing I think is good with what I've seen of Vista is that there is only the Windows logo for the start area, not all the wasted space of the word. But, again, every keyboard built in about the past 10 years has a Windows key on it, why does the Start button need to be anything more than a QL icon?