Better Or Worse: OS X’s Dock, Windows Taskbar?

Love ‘em or hate ‘em—application launchers from Windows and Mac OS X have fans, followings, faithful, and detractors.

Assume you use or used both Mac and Windows. Which of the two do you prefer?

The Dock or the Taskbar? Why?

At a basic level, most of us use our computers, Macs with OS X, Windows XP, in similar ways for similar tasks.

We open and run applications, open and use documents, and get a screen full of each that grows as the day goes long.

One of the more controversial aspects of using both Windows XP.... (excerpted).

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