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Microsoft files patent for possible taskbar replacement | |
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| Time: 00:26 EST/05:26 GMT | News Source: istartedsomething | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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“A method for managing windows in a display” would sound particularly familiar to every Windows user as “that strip at the bottom of the screen with the Start button and clock” or perhaps the more formal name, the taskbar. On July 12 the Patent Office processed a patent application from Microsoft filed on the 9th of February, 2006 of what appears to be a possible alternative for the decade-old taskbar we all know and cherish in Windows. Time and time again, Windows enthusiasts have jumped on the idea of replacing the taskbar in the ‘next’ version of Windows as one of the most revolutionary user interface changes Microsoft can make. For Windows Vista (Longhorn), the center of attention was the sidebar before undergoing major feature-reduction surgery in 2005 - a lot of people fantasized about how the sidebar could become the taskbar replacement, however that soon worn-off. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 7/16/2007 10:54:22 AM |
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The one thing they got right, and they want to change it. Wonderfull...
The new version will probably take up more screen real estate, hold less information, be slow as hell, and require 10GB of program code to maintain. But I bet it'll be pretty as hell! TL |
| #2 By 52115 (66.181.69.250) at 7/16/2007 12:15:41 PM |
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I'm sure too, they'll be able to prove that they invented the next great taskbar and go after other OS's if it looks anything like this version..
Patenting software, give me a break.. when's it gonna end?? Copyrighting ok; but patenting? |
| #3 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 7/16/2007 1:49:46 PM |
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I already keep my taskbar on the right hand side of my main monitor. I also have some defined tool bars with shortcuts to my most common folders / files.
Works great. The patent seems to reference little clips. I thought those were already in Vista when you put your mouse over a taskbar item. |
| #4 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 7/16/2007 9:58:39 PM |
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Maybe MS is jealous that their taskbar doesn't grow and shrink like a Mac. |
| #5 By 28801 (71.58.231.46) at 7/16/2007 10:18:39 PM |
| Taskbar envy. |
| #6 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 7/16/2007 10:35:32 PM |
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"grow and shrink like a Mac"
Uh, I think you mean grow and shrink like a NEW mac. Cause 3 days later, that crap is turned off. NotParker, I've had my taskbar on the left for several years. One you go vertical... |
| #7 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at 7/17/2007 8:19:12 AM |
| My Mac is 2 months old, and my task bar grows and shrinks still :-) |
| #8 By 1896 (216.189.174.40) at 7/17/2007 9:14:56 AM |
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#3 n #7: I agree withyour comments about keeping the taskbar vertically, I did it for years with XP; my problem is that having the Taskbar positioned side by side with the Sidebar does not play well with my eyes. I tried to have one on the rght side and one on the left one but, again, the "playing ping-pong" effect on my eyes was terrible so I moved the taskbar back to the bottom.
Of course the Longhorn 4XXX builds had the ability to combine both of them although there were others problems. Well, hopefully by the time Vienna will be available we will have back the ability to merge the bars or... we will have a "radial start menu"? |
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