Re: Hello Windows 7, so long Vista...

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"Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:kaudnXGEcMhcmPTUnZ2dnUVZ_sHinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Megabyte" <Megabyte.NoSpam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:896FC859-5230-4B00-B7D4-0A78F8F325A6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yep and I'm sure a little healthy competition from Linux on the Netbook front was a big help also! They did seem to learn from Vista mistakes though and they have built a much better operating system as a result so rather than focusing on the past I'm going to look forward and enjoy Windows 7. The taskbar is innovative and the best that I've seen or used on any platform. The person or team that came up with it deserves a good bonus.

That's funny, the task bar is the one thing I don't like. Too much like the dock in OS X. Not "innovative" at all. I have always (since Win 2000) made the taskbar double height, and then made the bottom row the "Quick Launch" area, and the top row is where the open/minimized windows go. I can't seem to do this on Win 7.

Also, turning quick launch icons into open window icons blows. Now you can't easily launch a 2nd or 3rd instance of IE or any app. It just returns you to the already open one. Not useful at all. I don't want my program launch icon becoming the opened/minimized icon, they are 2 different things.

They *really* need to fix this.



I disagree. You can easily open as many instances of IE as you want by simply right clicking on the taskbar icon and opening another instance. The transparent Window over top of the IE taskbar icon even overlaps each instance so you can see that you have more than one open. When you download in IE the transparent Window over the icon shows the progress. The preview mode (hovering your mouse over the icon) shows each IE tab and each IE instance to easily flip between them. You can also set whether you want taskbar buttons combined or not in the taskbar properties. If the taskbar looks too much like the OS X dock, change to the smaller icons with a checkbox in the taskbar properties. Having the icons combined with the transparent Window overlays allow the icons to perform several functions not just one like in the past. Now a single icon allows you to quick launch, quickly see which programs are running, see if you have multiple instances or Windows open in an application and monitor downloads. The taskbar is a real improvement in my opinion.

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