Images: What Windows 7 might have looked like

Hoefnagels noted that in this example taskbar, all of the areas are crowded with icons, but still, all have an alert that there is more information than was able to be shown on screen. "There's just a lot of stuff crammed in a very, very space constrained (user interface)," he said.

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