All I have to say is that I can have 26 running programs and their icons will fill the Taskbar perfectly. I could remove a couple of icons from the Notification area to gain another icon, but I have no need since I usually can’t even fill half of the “Superbar” with running program icons. And this is all with the normal large icons.
The following screenshot tells everything you need to know:
For this silly little demonstration I really had to dig around the start menu to find things to run… hence some of the odd icons. My favorite was the private character editor (the 10th icon from the right) which I had no idea existed!
While some are saying that the start menu is obsolete now (on blogs that make them money*, mind you) the fact is that 80% of icons shown for this test weren’t pinned to the Taskbar, and a few aren’t even applications at all.
And it’s been the same group that have been complaining about the “Superbar” anyway, saying that Microsoft has dumbed-down the OS and should have run the design and UI decisions by them first, as though their elitist blogger status has deemed them worthy of choosing an interface that’ll be used by millions and millions of users. (And I’m sure if they were given the opportunity, they wouldn’t hesitate to capitalize on the situation by blogging extensively about it – and bragging all the way.)
Perhaps Microsoft should drop the start menu and give us an application launcher. But then again, that’s exactly what the start menu already does, so there really isn’t much to complain about after all.
* But to be fair: if I could get paid to blog I might be doing the exact same thing… except I wouldn’t be hiding the counter-point or my true opinion somewhere at the bottom of a lengthy post.
Oh, wait…
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