we've all gotten used to the windows taskbar and start menu being on the bottom of the screen by default but why down there and yes i know you can move them to different parts of the display if you'd like but most folks leave them exactly where they are so is the bottom of the screen somehow superior well back in the pre-windows NUMBER_TOKEN days legacy versions of windows actually supported minimizing programs down into icons that would sit in a taskbar-like area at the bottom of the screen but even with that developers at microsoft weren't married to having the taskbar at the bottom of the screen during the development of windows NUMBER_TOKEN the first version of windows made with this kind of purpose-made taskbar that we're used to today in fact one of the development team's original ideas for the task bar might actually remind you more of today's web browsers instead of having a bar with buttons on the top of the screen you would have tabs at the top where each tab would give you access to a running window or program this was a heck of a lot better than the previous system in older versions of windows in which there actually wasn't any quick way to see exactly what you already had running at any given time because of this many users would just keep opening multiple instances of the same program rather than restoring a previous window leading to slowdowns and even crashes my mom did this all the time it drove me absolutely freaking crazy but there were a couple of big problems with having the taskbar up top one was that many programs simply wouldn't play nicely with having it up there you see the pixels on a computer monitor are arranged with a coordinate system with the first pixel at the top left of the screen being given the coordinates NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN well lots of programs assumed that that was where the usable part of the screen's real estate started so they would open at the very top of the screen where the taskbar would obscure them the devs didn't have a very good way to stop this behavior so they moved the taskbar down to the bottom of the screen of course mac os users had had their menu bar at the top of the screen for a long time but that's a different video for a different day we'll tell you more after we thank team group for sponsoring this video on september NUMBER_TOKENrd team group is hosting their annual team event focused on memory the event will revolve around heat dissipation large capacities and overclocked ddrNUMBER_TOKEN memory and there will be giveaways with the grand prize being a NUMBER_TOKEN gaming pc check out the link in the description to learn more so how did the start button end up on the taskbar well space was a real concern during windows NUMBER_TOKEN's development since many computer monitors of the day defaulted to relatively low resolutions with NUMBER_TOKENxNUMBER_TOKEN being especially popular this led to a number of design decisions such as using buttons on the taskbar which were smaller than the originally envisioned tabs as well as putting the start button on the taskbar in order to consolidate visual elements and ultimately make the user interface more space efficient and putting the start button there made sense in other ways as well one of the fundamental problems facing the development team was to make it easy for users to figure out where the heck all their stuff was whether it be running programs or other resources on the computer the old program manager from windows NUMBER_TOKEN was often criticized as being hard to navigate to the point that one of the developers claimed that a boeing
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