akugami
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As others stated the new Taskbar is essentially the old Taskbar & Quicklaunch combined. It works. Now, don't get me wrong, I did enable the old Quicklaunch but I'm so used to it being there for apps I use every few days but don't want to pin to the Taskbar. Can I work without the Quicklaunch? Yeah, but to me it makes things neater. I have about 10 apps in my Quicklaunch and 4 apps that I have pinned for my daily used apps.
As for the OP's example of clutter in Win7...you got more windows open in Win7 than in your Vista example. Not to mention the fact that you can change Win7 to have a neater Taskbar than the one you're showing us. I know I sometimes have a ton of stuff open and it is much much much neater than what you've shown us. Go in and properly configure the Taskbar.
Rule of thumb, try not to keep more than 5 apps pinned to Win7's Taskbar. It'll be much neater and I highly doubt most people use more than 5 apps on a daily basis.
And for those that don't know, you can pin the Control Panel to the Taskbar. For power users, that's awesome. To do this, open up the Control Panel, then right click on the icon of the Control Panel in the Taskbar and pin it. Neato.
As for apps behaving erratically, the OS is not even officially released. It's in Release Candidate form but it's not actually finalized. Developers are still working on updating their apps specifically for Win7 but don't be surprised if it takes a little while to do so.
As for the OP's example of clutter in Win7...you got more windows open in Win7 than in your Vista example. Not to mention the fact that you can change Win7 to have a neater Taskbar than the one you're showing us. I know I sometimes have a ton of stuff open and it is much much much neater than what you've shown us. Go in and properly configure the Taskbar.
Rule of thumb, try not to keep more than 5 apps pinned to Win7's Taskbar. It'll be much neater and I highly doubt most people use more than 5 apps on a daily basis.
And for those that don't know, you can pin the Control Panel to the Taskbar. For power users, that's awesome. To do this, open up the Control Panel, then right click on the icon of the Control Panel in the Taskbar and pin it. Neato.
As for apps behaving erratically, the OS is not even officially released. It's in Release Candidate form but it's not actually finalized. Developers are still working on updating their apps specifically for Win7 but don't be surprised if it takes a little while to do so.