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we've all gotten used to the Windows taskbar and start menu being on the

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bottom of the screen by default but why down there and yes i know you can

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move them to different parts of the display if you'd like but most folks

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leave them exactly where they are so is the bottom of the screen somehow

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superior well back in the pre-Windows 95 days

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legacy versions of Windows actually supported minimizing programs down into

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icons that would sit in a taskbar-like area at the bottom of the screen

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but even with that developers at microsoft weren't married to having the

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taskbar at the bottom of the screen during the development of Windows 95 the

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first version of Windows made with this kind of purpose-made taskbar that we're

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used to today in fact one of the development team's original ideas for

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the task bar might actually remind you more of today's web browsers instead of

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having a bar with buttons on the top of the screen you would have tabs at the

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top where each tab would give you access to a running window or program

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this was a heck of a lot better than the previous system in older versions of

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Windows in which there actually wasn't any quick way to see exactly what you

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already had running at any given time because of this many users would just

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keep opening multiple instances of the same program rather than restoring a

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previous window leading to slowdowns and even crashes my mom did this all the

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time it drove me absolutely freaking crazy but there were a couple of big problems

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with having the taskbar up top one was that many programs simply wouldn't play

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nicely with having it up there you see the pixels on a computer monitor are

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arranged with a coordinate system with the first pixel at the top left of the

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screen being given the coordinates 0 0

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well lots of programs assumed that that was where the usable part of the

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screen's real estate started so they would open at the very top of the screen

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where the taskbar would obscure them the devs didn't have a very good way to stop

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this behavior so they moved the taskbar down to the bottom of the screen of

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course macOS users had had their menu bar at the top of the screen for a long

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time but that's a different video for a different day we'll tell you more after

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the description to learn more so how did the start button end up on

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the taskbar well space was a real concern during Windows 95's development

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since many computer monitors of the day defaulted to relatively low resolutions

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with 640x480 being especially popular this

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led to a number of design decisions such as using buttons on the taskbar which

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were smaller than the originally envisioned tabs as well as putting the

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start button on the taskbar in order to consolidate visual elements and

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ultimately make the user interface more space efficient and putting the start

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button there made sense in other ways as well one of the fundamental problems

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facing the development team was to make it easy for users to figure out where

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the heck all their stuff was whether it be running programs or other resources

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on the computer the old program manager from Windows 3.1 was often criticized as

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being hard to navigate to the point that one of the developers claimed that a

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boeing rocket scientist was stuck for 20 minutes simply trying to figure out how

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to open a word processor so microsoft decided on having a single button be the

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gateway for everything on the system including programs files and settings

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originally the button was actually labeled system but users didn't want to

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click on it in microsoft's usability studies because it sounded overly

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technical so the dev team labeled the button start stuck it on the taskbar

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which already showed running programs and the system tray and the rest is

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history i just hope they never pull another Windows 8 and decide to take it

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away from us again thanks for watching guys you can like

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