[Liskiller]

I think this article should have been posted much earlier by the editors of "Engineering Windows 7" (the official blog of Windows 7) because we all already know almost everything about the new Windows 7 taskbar (thanks to M.Sudoku's Everything you want to know about Windows 7 Taskbar thread). But still it is worth looking at the taskbar again as per the perception of the Windows 7 developers themselves.

Following features or the new taskbar have been covered in this article:

* Refreshed Look
* Pinning
* Unification
* Interactive, Grouped Thumbnails
* Aero Peek
* Jump Lists
* Custom Window Switchers
* Thumbnail Toolbars
* Notification Area
* Overlay Icons and Progress Bars
* Color Hot-track
* Start Menu

Read here

[Afzal]

color hot-track is really good i love that effect!

[Jawadkho]

When I first saw the Windows 7 taskbar I hated it but each time I look at it looks better

[CommonSense]

I still want to know if 3rd party apps (non-MS product) can work with that new Quick Launch. Like Firefox instead of IE ya know what I mean?

[graeme]

in the pdc demo they used winrar for the superbar

[CommonSense]

graeme, on Nov 25 2008, 10:21 PM, said:

in the pdc demo they used winrar for the superbar

Awesome

[FalseAgent]

this is awesome, but hopefully, it doesn't confuse end users.

[Gragier_521]

^ You are right. I think my grandpa will be confused when they see this on the desktop.

[Club17]

Superbar is a mix of Desktop bar from KDE 4.1 and Vista bar.

[Airflow]

CommonSense, on Nov 25 2008, 07:17 PM, said:

I still want to know if 3rd party apps (non-MS product) can work with that new Quick Launch. Like Firefox instead of IE ya know what I mean?

I'm privately working on program that integrates Firefox like Internet Explorer. 3rd party apps, so far, are programmable that way, but Microsoft has not instructed the programmers on how to do so. My advice is to wait and see .

EDIT: Wait, are you talking about this (programming software, not integrated with Windows or anything):

This post has been edited by TaeX: 01 December 2008 - 03:06 AM

[Frylock86]

comedy_guy, on Nov 27 2008, 03:39 PM, said:

this is awesome, but hopefully, it doesn't confuse end users.

Prolly. But they'll get used to it. They survived the jump from 2000 to XP.

[Airflow]

[quote name='Frylock86' date='Nov 30 2008,

Frylock86, on Nov 30 2008, 09:08 PM, said:

comedy_guy, on Nov 27 2008, 03:39 PM, said:

this is awesome, but hopefully, it doesn't confuse end users.

Prolly. But they'll get used to it. They survived the jump from 2000 to XP.

*takes hat off*

Oh, those poor end users, they couldn't handle the square start button turning round.. Oh the shame..