Some of my colleagues were struck by a sentence in this old Newsweek article about Microsoft’s advertising campaign from last year. The sentence wasn’t about the ad campaign, though. It was about Windows 7:
The user interface has a slick new feature, a “taskbar” at the bottom that shows what apps you have open. The new system is due out later this year.
Wow, Windows 7 has a “taskbar”. If only we had thought of that sooner.
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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