Windows 7 taskbar with changes

Steven Sinofsky, the man held for years behind Office and who now heads the advanced Windows 7, said during the Microsoft PDC that the new taskbar of the next system would be mandatory. Mess into perspective.

Sinofsky is the one to whom we owe the appearance of ribbons in Office 2007. At the exit subsequently, the reactions were very mixed, particularly because he had to relearn how to use software or at least the organization of their features. In Windows 7, the taskbar adopt a new behavior, and this is the first time since Windows 95 that the publisher carries out such a change.

For Sinofsky, Windows has long been stuck in a “fear of change.” It is therefore assume more that want to make developers with the opportunities created by Vista. The biggest change comes from the operating base, akin to the Dock of Mac OS X: you put shortcuts in what appears to be a Quick Launch area, but these icons are framed when applications are launched. When you minimize one or more windows, they meet all their associated icons in this area.

The change should be less disruptive than Office 2007, since apart from a few basic principles, we should not learn the location of hundreds of features. Sinofsky also indicates that the office as a whole will gain in clarity, since Jump Lists, accessible from right-clicking on the icons, will meet a set of concepts.

A Jump List in theory contains two parts: one to access the latest documents opened by the application, dedicated to other functions. Windows Live Messenger for example, a Jump List concentrate active discussions, the change of status, and other features accessible from the notification area. Except that precisely the same area of notifications will be as clean for the benefit of the taskbar.

The taskbar is still evolving undoubtedly when Microsoft will launch its public beta. The views of users should eliminate the major flaws to be found in use.

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