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UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7
TRNick writes "TechRadar talks to Windows 7's Senior User Experience Designer and discovers the interface ideas the Windows 7 team almost, but didn't put into Windows 7, and the stages various UI features went through to their final form. Quoting: '... The next prototype, in February 2007, was called the Bat Signal; when you moved your mouse over an icon in the taskbar, the full window would pop up on screen, highlighted by beams of light (a little like the Batman signal projected over Gotham City). Bat Signal made it easy to find the right window but it caused other problems: 'sometimes people toss the mouse down to the bottom of the screen when they're typing because they don't care where the mouse is and the Bat Signal pops up and that's really intrusive in their flow.' Bat Signal evolved into Aero Peek in Windows 7; you can hover over an icon to get thumbnails and hover over a thumbnail to get a preview of the window."
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What a brilliant idea - you've just made my day!
I dragged my taskbar to the left hand side of the screen, right clicked on it and selected Properties, then clicked 'auto hide the taskbar', and I now have a load of extra screen space, I've dragged the taskbar out so that it shows much longer titles for each programme's tab, and I can easily select the screen I want.
So yet again - who the hell needs Windows 7?
I can't believe how many idiots there are who are fawning all over the most basic and OBVIOUS GUI 'upgrades' that the fools at Microsoft have taken ten years to come up with. As if that's reason enough to buy an entirely new OS and fork out money for the privilege of basic UI updates.