>Excuse me, but Windows had a Taskbar before Apple had a Dock. Of course they did. But the Dock was used quite differently than the taskbar (it is primarily us

>Excuse me, but Windows had a Taskbar before Apple had a Dock. Of course they did. But the Dock was used quite differently than the taskbar (it is primarily used to hold shortcuts, not to show you what is open), so it made sense to rename it in that case. But Microsoft seems to rename things just so they can feel unique. Don't get me wrong; I don't think it's some horrendous crime, or that it's unethical or anything. I just think it's funny. Apple has, of course, been known to do the same thing. For example, it was rather silly how before Lion, they insisted on referring to all perfectly ordinary 802.11 WiFi technologies as "AirPort", and how they wrapped OpenAL in the most cursory of framework boilerplate and called it "Core Audio". >Windows also had Quick Launch shortcuts before Apple had a Dock as well. And Apple had the Launcher three years earlier than that. But the Launcher wasn't the Dock, and neither were Quick Launch shortcuts. Pinning to the taskbar, on the other hand, is the Dock, almost to a T.