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Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither

• doublerabbit 1mo ago
  I want this taskbar: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/qnx621/ https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/qnx621/ So retro, so cool.
  • TacticalCoder 1mo ago
    If you're on some X11 (Xorg or whatever else if there's still something else than Xorg) windowing system (say non-Wayland Linux or a BSD), you can definitely get some window manager with themes very close to that.
• Lammy 1mo ago
  > we were sat in a room thinking 'How do we design this to be different, so we don't get sued by Apple?' The Mac had a menu bar of text across the top, so we thought 'we can't go across the top, we'll have to go across the bottom Funnily enough, a few of the Windows Chicago/94/95 builds do come with the taskbar set to top of screen by default: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_95_build_90c https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_95_build_90c
• twoodfin 1mo ago
  Under-explored in this article is the degree to which pre-NT/95 Microsoft (particularly BillG) was obsessed with NeXT, at least if you believe Steven Sinofsky: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/009-password-is-nextstep https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/009-passwo...
• wmerrifield 1mo ago
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