![]() Microsoft discarded this idea and replaced it with the Windows 95 taskbar. (Some might argue that this was taking the desktop metaphor a bit too far.) In early builds of Windows 95, the taskbar originally wasn't a taskbar it was a folder window docked at the bottom of the screen that you could drag/drop things into/out of, sort of like the organizer tray in the top drawer of you desk. Telling the official history of the system tray, Chen points out that early development builds of Windows 95 had a "tray" instead of a taskbar: Amusingly enough, people still call it the "system tray" and the confusion continues 17 years later. Microsoft's Raymond Chen wrote about this issue back in 2003. ![]() Yes, Microsoft employees have repeatedly called it the "system tray" in various documents over the years, much to the apparent consternation of the Windows shell team, so named because they're in charge of the Windows desktop "shell," which includes the taskbar.
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