Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC
- Posted: May 06, 2009 at 8:35 AM
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Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows. We first introduced Windows 7 Taskbar during PDC 2008 and it was available for user to try in the Windows 7 Beta release. We received a lot of great feedback from you about Windows 7 beta. Now you are welcome to join Ben Betz and Robert Jarrett in this video as they cover a few changes we made to Taskbar functionality in order to incorporate your feedback.
You can find additional information about the Windows 7 RC updates in the following E7 blog posts:
- Some Changes Since Beta for the RC
- A few more changes from Beta to RC…
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This is another video in the Windows 7 Taskbar series that includes:
The Windows 7 Taskbar Overview
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One thing I don't get... I can see that running applications show a "raised glass button" effect to indicate the app is running. Why does Outlook 2007 not do this? Clearly Outlook is running but no glass button. Why?
Andrew
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Andrew, that happens because you specified that Outlook minimizes to the system tray. This means that the main window is hidden and the taskbar therefore doesn't show the "raised glass button".
Right click the Outlook system tray icon and uncheck "Hide When Minimized". That will change the behaviour to what you expected
Where can I find a list of the shortcuts that are mentioned at the end of the video?
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