The taskbar team has an amazing innovation up their sleeves, but if you ask any of the team directly, what do you get? They’ll tell you that the taskbar is more an “evolution” than a “revolution” in the Windows UI.
For those of you who aren’t convinced, the old taskbar actually happens to still be around, but only in the sense that the opened applications can have text next to their icons in the new taskbar. Besides that, the new taskbar functionality will all still remain intact, even though you can bring it close to looking like the old taskbar. Take a gander below; you’ll see more in our interview next week.
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Wow! Good stuff!
One question though! Why keep us on the edge of our seats for the rest? LOL. 
There’s an audio component to everything else. I’m not having people wait on purpose; I’m rendering these videos with my laptop again, so it will take a whille.
No problem! I was just joking!
Sorry about that.
Whatever happened to give users choice and options in Windows 7? For those who don’t like the new taskbar (I certainly welcome it), fallback to “Classic taskbar”. I hope they do it by RTM.
Whatever happened to give users choice and making everything optional? For those that don’t like the new taskbar or aren’t accustomed to it (I welcome it though), why not a simple “Classic taskbar” option. After all the taskbar’s been there from Windows 95 and it is hard for people to change their computing habits.
Going from Win 3.1 to Win95 didn’t cause me any trouble so a slight taskbar change shouldn’t bother anyone’s habits too much.
This taskbar is so ridiculously easy to learn that I can understand the reluctance behind the decision to add a “classic taskbar” function.
Thank you Bryant. Well said! I couldn’t agree more with you! Why does everyone feel the need to revert back to the old all the time when half of the time they complain about it before the new is shown? LOL.
Looks nice
However, just a modified version of the vista Taskbar is on Build 6801 of Windows 7…
forget the fact they take a while to render because he does do awesome quality videos (audio and vid) if he did put them all of his PDC content out at one time you (and i know myself) would digest it all back to back and be done with it in the better part of a day and then we would go back to waiting for the beta build.
Oh yes, I know he does great quality audio and video. That is one of the big reasons why I like this site so much.
Also, point taken on the putting out things all at once thought. That makes sense.
I was just joking anyway.
People who use a multi-monitor taskbar (e.g. Ultramon) have a very good reason not to like the new taskbar.