The Superbar is the heart and soul of Windows 7's shell evolution. Aero vNext, synonymous with the introduction of the next iteration of the Windows client, brings to the table, even as early as Beta Build 7000, the most consistent redesign of the Windows graphical user interface since the debut of Windows, through the overhauled Taskbar. And in a sense, as Chaitanya Sareen, a senior program manager for Microsoft, revealed, Windows 7's GUI was taken all the way back to the origins of the operating system, adapting shell elements from Windows 1.0.

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