@DharmaLab: Oh, Windows has UI guidelines. You wouldn't know it, though.

@kasakka: It's really not MS' place to tell developers what keys to use for shortcuts, nor force them to read anything. The relative freedom offered by windows is one of it's strengths, not a weakness.

@beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid: The actual effect of it on most people is nil. I don't think it has any real place on a productivity/tech blog.

@Prairie Moon: How odd. I can see explorer windows, as I guess the regular shell keeps it in memory, but very strange. It did uninstall gracefully, though, which was very nice, and more than I can say for other shells I tried.

@alpha1: Yeah, they have some lovely plans. Maybe opensourcing could get them a few dedicated developers, then it could be fantastic.

@Senethior459: I dunno, any network executive who's seen it would probably be as desperate for more as the rest of us :P

@Venix: Aye, but hitting it appears to horribly break the text area :(

This is lovely! Missing as-you-type, and doesn't seem to work on LH, though. A pity, it seems great otherwise.

@Senethior459: It was a few years between the cancellation and serenity!

I really want one.

@Meetloaf13: Indeed it has, there's a tray applet that works pretty great. Indeed, it was that and the main desktop applet that I used! Don't need no fancy taskbars, I have alt-tab for that.

@alpha1: I tried the alpha, I was pretty disappointed. I mean, it worked, but they'd been advertising so much for so long I was expecting something special.

IMO, if you're killing the taskbar like this you should just replace the shell with something lighter-weigh. I'd reccomend Emerge, it does what it says on the tin and very little else. Loved it on XP, Vista, but Win7's taskbar is too nice to pass up <3

@Bill Clark: Oh, I mean things like facebook help, or general non-usery things. They've stopped doing it, but it was there for a while.

Hell naw, the internet is a public medium. That's the very concept it relies on - everything for everyone.

@coren: eztv's rss feeds are really useful. Pre-emptively loaded up the lost feed so I can get the first episode ASAP :D

@FlameEye: You sure about that? :)

@P_Smith: I think my post still stands - it'd be nice if they'd drop support, but alas google aren't THAT down with it :P

@P_Smith: They're not dropping support out of some crazed hatred of IE, they're dropping support because IE6 is literally damaging their products by stopping them from going forward. IE7 isn't. Yet.

@Bonsai_halcyon: I didn't know what the button would do, and it's gone now! :(