Images: What Windows 7 might have looked like

Hoefnagels noted that even the earliest Windows, Windows 1.0, had a place at the bottom to indicate multiple running programs.

"What are those big icons?" he asked during his speech at the Mix 09 conference last week. "Is that the Apple Dock? No, this predates the Apple Dock by 15 years. This even predates the NextStep OS on which the dock is based by two years."

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