Windows 7 Desktop Taskbar
Taskbar
I like the new taskbar that Windows 7 has. What it does is consolidate all of your icons based upon their logo. The new setup looks extremely clean and works a lot like the Mac dock. If you highlight your mouse over the taskbar, a preview of all of the program windows will pop up. This feature is similar to Vistas but it will show you a preview of all the windows rather than a single one. Unfortunately, this feature wasn’t enabled on my laptop because it wasn’t powerful enough. However, I was able to use it one of my friends computers with a midrange Core 2 Duo processor.
Drivers:
One of the features I really like about Windows 7 is its compatibility. As I stated in the last article, the Windows 7 driver update is awesome. But what is also cool is that Windows Vista drivers are compatible with the new version. This will save developers a lot of time because they don’t have to scrap all the work they’ve done on Windows Vista drivers to be compatible with the new version. This means that for the user they can expect to see Windows 7 deployed relatively quickly.
Other features
There are a lot of other great tweaks that Windows 7 offers. I found these sites that lay out some of the improvements. The Istartedsomething blog has a great explanation of the new Taskbar. They discuss the new shake feature. This feature is activated when you shake an open window all other windows behind it will minimize to the taskbar.
Tags: core 2 duo, taskbar, windows 7