Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All

cremou brulee writes "Redmond's photocopiers have been unusually busy for the last couple of years, with the result that Windows 7 copies a lots of Mac OS X features. First and foremost among these is the Dock, which has been unceremoniously ripped off in Windows 7's new Taskbar. Or has it? Ars Technica has taken an in-depth look at the history and evolution of the Taskbar, and shows just how MS arrived at the Windows 7 'Superbar.' The differences between the Superbar and the Dock are analyzed in detail. The surprising conclusion? 'Ultimately, the new Taskbar is not Mac-like in any important way, and only the most facile of analyses would claim that it is.'"

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So there's the proof!

[hyades1]

It waddles. It quacks. It's a camel!

KDE

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows 7 - KDE4 for Windows ~

"Superbar"? Who wants to kill marketroids?

[jonaskoelker]

Windows 7 'Superbar.'

I'm going to get rich when I invent a machine that lets me stab people in the face over the internet.

Except there wont be anyone to run my marketing campaign :(

Re:"Superbar"? Who wants to kill marketroids?

[Sponge Bath]

I would like to believe an OSS equivalent might be called "Open Bar",
but experience tells me it would be named something impenetrable like
"SpackleMonkey" or a difficult to pronounce word from a long dead language.

Windows in more environmentally friendly than Mac

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Windows has a recycling bin but Apple still has trash.

Re:The real difference is that

[fireman sam]

There are several Vista keyboards. They are the Basic vista keyboard, Basic home vista keyboard, home vista keyboard, basic business vista keyboard, business vista keyboard, and professional business vista keyboard.

The basic vista keyboard looks just like the professional business vista keyboard, but you cannot use more than a single key at once and you have to call microsoft hardware support to activate your end user license before all the keys work. Also if you do not activate it before the 30 day trial the only text written to an application upon use of the keyboard is "activate.microsoft.com"

Re:Here's what Apple has copied

[DurendalMac]

Is your monitor really that reflective, AC?

Re:Look carefully at "Application"...

[Sean0michael]

Actually, both of you hit two heads of the same nail/

That has to be the oddest analogy I have seen yet on Slashdot. I have never heard of a two-headed nail, nor can I really conceive why such a nail would be at all better than the standard one-headed nail.

But taking into account your 4-digit ID, perhaps you are old enough to remember a time when we used two-headed nails and were lucky to have them, or were grateful for them, or something like that.