{"id":13653,"date":"2010-06-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/06\/21\/wow-a-task-bar-what-a-novel-idea\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T07:00:00","slug":"wow-a-task-bar-what-a-novel-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100621-00\/?p=13653","title":{"rendered":"Wow, a task bar, what a novel idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Some of my colleagues were struck by a sentence in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/192459\"> this old Newsweek article<\/a> about Microsoft&#8217;s advertising campaign from last year. The sentence wasn&#8217;t about the ad campaign, though. It was about Windows&nbsp;7: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> The user interface has a slick new feature, a &#8220;taskbar&#8221; at the bottom that shows what apps you have open. The new system is due out later this year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Wow, Windows&nbsp;7 has a &#8220;taskbar&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/toastytech.com\/guis\/chicago.html\"> If only we had thought of that sooner<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my colleagues were struck by a sentence in this old Newsweek article about Microsoft&#8217;s advertising campaign from last year. The sentence wasn&#8217;t about the ad campaign, though. It was about Windows&nbsp;7: The user interface has a slick new feature, a &#8220;taskbar&#8221; at the bottom that shows what apps you have open. The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-13653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some of my colleagues were struck by a sentence in this old Newsweek article about Microsoft&#8217;s advertising campaign from last year. The sentence wasn&#8217;t about the ad campaign, though. It was about Windows&nbsp;7: The user interface has a slick new feature, a &#8220;taskbar&#8221; at the bottom that shows what apps you have open. The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}