![]() What isn’t smart is taking away the ability to see which items are which via text at a glance. Moving them to the center of the screen is a pointless, but harmless, bit of cosmetics. With users more and more used to a combined launcher and window manager, integrating these tools is a smart way forward. And it makes a bit of sense: The design is merely combining the window management aspect of the taskbar and the Quick Launch toolbar first introduced in Windows XP. Microsoft clearly likes this scrunched-up interface it’s been the default look since Windows 7 in 2009. This means that even if you have a dozen items open on your desktop-as I often do-you’ll be looking at a row of relatively tiny icons, with only a few pixels of indication that there are multiple windows of some items like your browser or Windows Explorer. ![]() Use more than a few shortcuts and open apps, and the taskbar quickly becomes a row of difficult-to-spot shapes. ![]()
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