[Ultimate John]

A video posted on the French Microsoft website shows some odd footage of what looks to be a different take on the Windows 7 UI. This video was posted way back in February and it doesn't have a build stamp in the right hand corner so its hard to make out what the heck it is. Paul Thurrott made it clear that this is an old build of Windows because it has the health center and an old UAC Interface.

In this version of the superbar, presumably by default, labels are still enabled. Unlike the labels in the version of Windows 7 today which just feature an application window’s title in a single line, it appears to be a multi-line label separating the name of the application and a subtitle indicating the contents of the current window.

This is an interesting concept because still to this day, the label that appears in the taskbar is a duplicate of the title of the Window it represents, not the application. For example, your Windows Live Messenger windows are labeled by the username of your conversations, not “Windows Live Messenger” and a Twitter application could have indicated in the subtitle “4 unread, 3 replies”.

Video Link

Source: blogofcookie via istartedsomething

This post has been edited by Ultimate John: 25 April 2009 - 09:55 AM

[Syzygy]

Would have been useful, but hella ugly

[FalseAgent]

looks really nice! but it looks wayy to much like vista.

[Elijah?]

Gross. Good thing they went with the current UI over this, but I'm still hoping for a UI overhaul. Still to Vista-ish for me.

[PurplePeopleEater]

that would look nice if they used the smaller taskbar option, but the flat panel style they used still looks the best

[Frylock86]

That actually looks better than the current superbar design...

[fediaFedia]

Silverlight - do not want.
wtf was i thinking

[The Alpha Gamer]

Looks way better than the stupid icon only superbar

[Krazy Bluez]

I think if M$ had given us an option to use any one of them, because that would looked more better when we would have enabled both...

[InlineSkate]

Frylock86, on Apr 25 2009, 11:41 AM, said:

That actually looks better than the current superbar design...

It was probably too vista like for them.

[Eye Pie Rate]

They should have kept the aero effect it has.

[Culprit]

i like what it is now

[pm_41]

I like that version better than the current superbar.

[Genius314]

Doesn't that look just like the regular taskbar, except twice as wide?

[PRATOSH]

haha i liked it bettter.