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by ianetaylor 3774 days ago
Start Menu engineer here. There was a bunch of precedent for having a bar at the bottom of the screen (Dos apps, Windows 1.0, Cairo etc) but mostly it was a compat issue; a bunch apps broke if the Taskbar was at the top. We thought that we could maybe move it to the top when these apps got fixed but of course by then everyone was used to it at the bottom even if the 'drop up' menu wasn't great UX.