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Task switching in Windows Vista
Friday, June 16th, 2006
Back in the DOS days of computing there really was no such thing as task switching. You ran one 
program at a time and that was it. When you wanted to run a different program, you closed the first one and then loaded the second one. Once we got into the Windows 3.x operating system, we were given the ability to run multiple programs at the same time–and that was a revolutionary change. However, Microsoft didn’t provide us with good method for keeping track of or switching between multiple running programs.
Fortunately, in Windows Vista, we are given several very cool, very graphical methods for switching between open windows or tasks. Let’s take a look at the evolution of task switching in the Windows operating system and then focus on Windows Vista’s new task switching features. Task switching in Windows Vista
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