Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

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Post by dporan » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 10:04 PM UTC

Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar
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Re: Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

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Post by dporan » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

An HN post yesterday [1] reminded me of this Q&A that I did last year.

(Thanks to HN user DoingIsLearning for suggesting a separate submission.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33760814

Re: Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

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Post by DoingIsLearning » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:20 AM UTC

@dang Please consider this submission for the second-chance pool. This is a really nice interview with a lot of inside history (prototypes/sketches) into a piece of computing UI that has becoming pretty much iconic.

Hi Daniel, thank you for sharing this great interview and an inside view to how the Windows desktop evolved over time.

Please also consider submitting your sketches and prototypes to an online archive such as archive.org it really would be a shame not to preserve this. They already have a large collection 'The Internet Archive Software Collection' which contains quite a lot of historic windows content. Perhaps reach out to them directly and ask if there is a better way to archive these.

Re: Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

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Post by dporan » Thu, Dec 01, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #3

@dang Please consider this submission for the second-chance pool. This is a really nice interview with a lot of inside history (prototypes/sketches) into a piece of computing UI that has becoming pretty much iconic. Hi Daniel, thank you for sharing this great interview and an inside view to how the Windows desktop evolved over time. Please also consider submitting your sketches and prototypes to an online archive suc…

Thanks! The Internet Archive Software Collection sounds like a great resource. I'm going to check it out.

Re: Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

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Post by DoingIsLearning » Thu, Dec 01, 2022, 9:01 AM UTC

dporan wrote: post #4

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #3

@dang Please consider this submission for the second-chance pool. This is a really nice interview with a lot of inside history (prototypes/sketches) into a piece of computing UI that has becoming pretty much iconic. Hi Daniel, thank you for sharing this great interview and an inside view to how the Windows desktop evolved over time. Please also consider submitting your sketches and prototypes to an online archive suc…

Thanks! The Internet Archive Software Collection sounds like a great resource. I'm going to check it out.

In this collection there is also a 'Software History Collection' which would probably also be a great fit in this case.

Re: Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

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Post by dporan » Thu, Dec 01, 2022, 6:49 PM UTC

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #5

dporan wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The Internet Archive Software Collection sounds like a great resource. I'm going to check it out.

In this collection there is also a 'Software History Collection' which would probably also be a great fit in this case.

Great! I'll look for that collection.