Did you purposefully choose a link that doesn't actually include any working gallery links? Here, here's the actual wiki for betaarchive: https://www.betaarchi

Did you purposefully choose a link that doesn't actually include any working gallery links? Here, here's the actual wiki for betaarchive: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/ https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/ And here's a link to the first build with a fully functional start menu: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Chicago_Build_81 https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Ch... That's b81...there were 400+ more to follow that (800+, if you include the follow up service packs). Pretty much every person who worked on Chicago that talks about the start button/taskbar says it's one of the first things that was finalized, which the builds obviously confirm. The "iteration" that you refer to is simply taking the combined Presentation Manager and Program Manager code and reconfiguring it into the taskbar. For someone so "aware" of software development, you seem to expect unreasonably long timelines (5+ years for GNOME3) and unreasonably short timelines (what? 4-8 builds? to completely reconfigure a major UI component and paradigm) when they're convenient to making your wholecloth narratives work.