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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Member since:2006-02-17
And even before there were already a taskbar for KDE3 which did exactly the same.
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Taskbar+v2+(flat+%2B+t...)?content=16261
which is from 2004. I cannot remember any similiar feature in Longhorn builds.
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2005-07-06
Compiz copied the feature from Vista, which first had it demoed like 2003-2004 time-frame.