"Henry Jones" <henry@yada.com> wrote in message
news:uUAvR8yHHHA.5104@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Very cool. I tried it a couple of times and it was amazing, but not
> that functional when I can just click on the taskbar to get to a
> window faster. But I guess those Microsoft Programmers had some fun
> with this task.

I thought Flip-3D was a bit gimmicky too at first, until I had over 10
windows open and found that scrolling through them with the mouse lets
me see what is where much more efficiently than trying to find it in
the taskbar.

Something I noticed about grouping of similar items in the taskbar
with thumnails is it doesn't let you move through the thumnails, but
scrolling on the screen lets you see each individual window.

For typical home users Flip-3D is not a big deal since many of them
don't even leave a few windows open, they close a window instead of
minimizing or simply opening another over it as if they think leaving
windows open is somehow bad. Maybe they think that's how bugs get
in...hehe.

To this day, a few of my less intelligent friends are still freaked
out when I show them something on the computer and they see two dozen
windows all open and I have to remind them "It's OK...it's called
multitasking!".

:-)

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