The Old New Thing

Early versions of Aero Peek: Aladdin, Bat Signal, and Squeegee

September 10, 2013 Sep 10, 2013 09/10/13

Raymond Chen

The feature now known as Aero Peek wasn't born that way. It went through several iterations before becoming what eventually shipped in Windows 7. At the MIX09 conference, Stephan Hoefnagels showed some of the precursors to Aero Peek. Here are the highlights, and the corresponding time codes if you want to jump straight to the demos. ...