You Looked.

Working at the Application Support Center (ASC) at the University of Florida, I have come across a number of Mac users. One thing that has always surprised me about them is that no matter what, they always vehemently swear by the Mac. I have, till date, never met even one disgruntled Mac user. And its for this reason that even though I love the Windows Operating Systems (including Vista), I have made up my mind to buy a Mac for myself one of these times, and see what the fuss is all about.

I love Windows 7 and its awesome new taskbar. However, as intuitive as many of the things on this new taskbar appear, I think missing the feature of letting include separators between pinned items on the taskbar is a big oversight. It is quite obvious that to exploit the Windows 7 taskbar and its purposefulness, one must pin as many of their most commonly used applications onto it. However, what that leads to is a whole list of seemingly unorganized icons in your taskbar.

With this clutter, it is only natural for someone who likes an organized desktop (pun intended) to be able to categorize the things he lays on it. I, not being any different tried to do the same but only drew up a naught. There is no such feature in Windows 7.

Here is my take on what the taskbar could have looked like -