http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=TaskbarTaskbar - Revision history2026-05-04T17:38:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.1http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Taskbar&diff=4869434&oldid=previmported>Emmetropic: It is not correct to say that Android has a taskbar at the top of the screen because no means is provided in that location through which a user may switch between apps or windows.2025-12-08T07:00:51Z<p>It is not correct to say that Android has a taskbar at the top of the screen because no means is provided in that location through which a user may switch between apps or windows.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''taskbar''' is a [[graphical user interface]] element that has been part of [[Microsoft Windows]] since [[Windows 95]], displaying and facilitating switching between running [[computer program|programs]]. The taskbar and the associated [[Start menu|Start Menu]] were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at [[Microsoft]] who had previously collaborated on [[great ape language]] research with the [[Behaviorism|behavioral psychologist]] [[B. F. Skinner|B.F. Skinner]] at [[Harvard University|Harvard]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lehmann-Haupt |first=Christopher |date=1998-07-09 |title=Books of the Times; A Jungle? It's Murder, It's a Conspiracy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/09/books/books-of-the-times-a-jungle-it-s-murder-it-s-a-conspiracy.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322215943/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/09/books/books-of-the-times-a-jungle-it-s-murder-it-s-a-conspiracy.html |archive-date=2023-03-22 |access-date=2023-03-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Weinberger |first=Matt |date=2015-07-30 |title='He was literally a rocket scientist. And even he couldn't figure out Windows.' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-windows-start-button-2015-7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807192250/https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-windows-start-button-2015-7 |archive-date=2015-08-07 |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Andrews |first=Paul <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40820951 </del>|title=How the Web was won : Microsoft from Windows to the Web : the inside story of how Bill Gates and his band of internet idealists transformed a software empire |date=1999 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=0-7679-0048-0 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=244–5 |oclc=40820951}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45226466 </del>|title=Inside out : Microsoft--in our own words. |date=2000 |publisher=Warner Books |others=Microsoft Corporation |isbn=0-446-52739-4 |location=New York, NY |pages=30 |oclc=45226466}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''taskbar''' is a [[graphical user interface]] element that has been part of [[Microsoft Windows]] since [[Windows 95]], displaying and facilitating switching between running [[computer program|programs]]. The taskbar and the associated [[Start menu|Start Menu]] were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at [[Microsoft]] who had previously collaborated on [[great ape language]] research with the [[Behaviorism|behavioral psychologist]] [[B. F. Skinner|B.F. Skinner]] at [[Harvard University|Harvard]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lehmann-Haupt |first=Christopher |date=1998-07-09 |title=Books of the Times; A Jungle? It's Murder, It's a Conspiracy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/09/books/books-of-the-times-a-jungle-it-s-murder-it-s-a-conspiracy.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322215943/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/09/books/books-of-the-times-a-jungle-it-s-murder-it-s-a-conspiracy.html |archive-date=2023-03-22 |access-date=2023-03-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Weinberger |first=Matt |date=2015-07-30 |title='He was literally a rocket scientist. And even he couldn't figure out Windows.' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-windows-start-button-2015-7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807192250/https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-windows-start-button-2015-7 |archive-date=2015-08-07 |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Andrews |first=Paul |title=How the Web was won : Microsoft from Windows to the Web : the inside story of how Bill Gates and his band of internet idealists transformed a software empire |date=1999 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=0-7679-0048-0 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=244–5 |oclc=40820951}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Inside out : Microsoft--in our own words. |date=2000 |publisher=Warner Books |others=Microsoft Corporation |isbn=0-446-52739-4 |location=New York, NY |pages=30 |oclc=45226466}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The taskbar is an exemplar of a category of always-visible graphical user interface elements that provide access to fundamental [[operating system]] functions and information. At the time of its introduction in 1995, the taskbar was unique among such elements because it provided the user with a means of switching between running programs through a single click of the [[pointing device]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The taskbar is an exemplar of a category of always-visible graphical user interface elements that provide access to fundamental [[operating system]] functions and information. At the time of its introduction in 1995, the taskbar was unique among such elements because it provided the user with a means of switching between running programs through a single click of the [[pointing device]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The '''Quick Launch bar''', introduced on [[Windows 95]] and [[Windows NT 4.0]] through the [[Windows Desktop Update]] for [[Internet Explorer 4]] and bundled with [[Windows 95#Editions|Windows 95 OSR 2.5]] [[Windows 98]], contains shortcuts to applications. Windows provides default entries, such as ''Launch [[Internet Explorer]] Browser'', and the user or third-party software may add any further shortcuts that they choose. A single click on the application's icon in this area launches the application. This section may not always be present: for example it is turned off by default in [[Windows XP]] and [[Windows 7]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The '''Quick Launch bar''', introduced on [[Windows 95]] and [[Windows NT 4.0]] through the [[Windows Desktop Update]] for [[Internet Explorer 4]] and bundled with [[Windows 95#Editions|Windows 95 OSR 2.5]] [[Windows 98]], contains shortcuts to applications. Windows provides default entries, such as ''Launch [[Internet Explorer]] Browser'', and the user or third-party software may add any further shortcuts that they choose. A single click on the application's icon in this area launches the application. This section may not always be present: for example it is turned off by default in [[Windows XP]] and [[Windows 7]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The Windows shell places a '''taskbar button''' on the taskbar whenever an application creates an unowned window: that is, a window that does not have a parent and that is created according to normal Windows user interface guidelines. Typically all [[Single Document Interface]] applications have a single taskbar button for each open window, although [[modal window]]s may also appear there.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The Windows shell places a '''taskbar button''' on the taskbar whenever an application creates an unowned window: that is, a window that does not have a parent and that is created according to normal Windows user interface guidelines. Typically all [[Single Document Interface]] applications have a single taskbar button for each open window, although [[modal window]]s may also appear there.</div></td></tr>
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