Comments on: Giz Explains: Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X’s Dock

By: alec

alec — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:35:57 +0000

its nice to see that you didnt just bag out mac like most reviewers do (or bag out windows)

i agree with alot of wat ur saying, windows 7 does have some great features, like showing screens in your apps. in snow leopard they change expose a bit to be similar but not as accesible as win7. windows 7 could really benefit from adding their own design of stacks menu’s

By: Bryan Watson

Bryan Watson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:46:20 +0000

Did you not read that you can preview all the open windows of an application by hovering the mouse over it? that’s another advantage. Plus it doesnt have the annoying bouncing icon that wants your attention, in windows 7 it just glows; that’s a lot better.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:23:28 +0000

This is silly; he’s criticizing Mac OS X without actually knowing how to use it or what it does.
OS X does have the ‘find by window thumbnail’ feature — it’s F9. Expose doesn’t just use hot corners.
It does allow you to select and open windows from Dock — hold down the dock icon for the list, plus many commands.
It’s disingenuous to warn ‘unless the app allows this Dock function’ since the Dock functions are usually the common functions needed.
Once again, Windows being compared to a superior product doesn’t automatically make it as good — you really need to take a longer look at your comparisons.

By: AlexF

AlexF — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:23:11 +0000

> It borders on actively encouraging you to forget the distinction, which as computers become more powerful and applications launch more quickly, matters less and less anyhow.

This isn't anything new... Microsoft tried the same-old on WindowsMobile. They said that their memory managemenet was so great that user never needed to care... Needless to say, there were hundreds 3rd-party utilities that enabled real kill of app to free memory.

No matter what prettiness and simplicity 7 is supposed to provide, in the end, there's limited RAM and if running applications can't get it, they're gonna 7 to load pages from disk, slowing things down for the unaware user.

By: Vatoe

Vatoe — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:36:16 +0000

Trying dragging the applications folder onto the dock in Leopard (OS X). When you have done this, you can click on this folder and all your applications are beautifully presented for easy selection…

By: Justin b

Justin b — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:47:41 +0000

That’s it? I have a ever growing apps folder and about 6 programs on my mac dock thanks to one thing – Quicksilver.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:42:19 +0000

I don’t quite understand what’s wrong with the quickbar myself. I never liked the dock.

By: Gav

Gav — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:11:40 +0000

Very impressive, but you should probably not have chosen to show off your pirated dvd collection.

By: Jayphen

Jayphen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:32:17 +0000

So wait, why does it beat the OS X dock? Because you can’t open another window of an application directly from the dock, but you can in the ‘Superbar’ by right clicking the application, then clicking the name? That’s the only advantage you’ve mentioned here.

By: Trev

Trev — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:15:52 +0000

Interesting that the second from bottom screen grab shows The Dark Knight DVD rip from aXXo, might be worth changing that…just a suggestion ;)